"American Beauty" Rite-Heat Glower Stove
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: American Electrical Heater Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A. Table-top electric stove, nickel-plated. Rectangular block form on four ebonized wooden feet. Two pierced side panels with upper coiled heating unit comprised of curved metal coils mounted under a crisscrossed grate, insulated with long strips of mica. Hollow, flat base with canted sides. Rectangular drip pan with wire handle, under the heating element, can be pulled out for cleaning. Two prongs on back of upper grate for attaching power cord, with hood. Yellow enamel on underside of base. Attached metal plate at front, black with silver writing: “American Beauty” GLOWER STOVE/CAT. NO. 3350-G VOLTS 110-125 WATTS 500/LMP/MADE BY/ AMERICAN ELECTRICAL HEATER CO./DETROIT, U.S.A.”; top of base is engraved/stamped: “American Beauty” GLOWER STOVE/CAT. NO. 3350-G VOLTS 110-125 WATTS 500/LMP/MADE BY/ AMERICAN ELECTRICAL HEATER CO./DETROIT, U.S.A./PATENTS PENDING”
label: Description
content: B. Black and gold cloth power cord, woven, with two separate porcelain attachments, black, on one end, molded plastic two-pronged plug on opposite end.
label: Description
content: In original cardboard box marked: "RITE-HEAT GLOWER STOVE/ELECTRIC".
label: Description
content: “LMP”: “Licensed under Marsh Patents”, for chromium-nickel alloy resistance wire, which was patented by Albert Marsh, Lake Bluff, Illinois, February 6, 1906. (Catalogue card)
label: Description
content: An ad illustrated in Toasters and Small Kitchen Appliances: A Price Guide, p. 67 states that this “Utility Stove” was sold in 1920.
label: Description
content: Maker is American Electric Heater Company, circa 1890-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joyce Barth & Florence E. Scuderi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0338.11
label: accession number
content: 1992.0338
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0338.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate, hot
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (plug material)
label: Physical Description
content: mica (heating element material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (plug material)
label: Measurements
content: overall hot plate: 3 3/8 in x 6 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 15.5575 cm x 14.2875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-in box: 3 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 15.875 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-cord folded: 1 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm