Furnace-flame inspection glass
date: label: date made
content: early 20th c.
notes: label: Description
content: This furnace-flame inspection glass was made by Flynn & Emrich Company in the early twentieth century. This object would have been used to inspect the pattern of the flame in a coal-fired steam boiler or an iron furnace. The frame of the inspection glass is made of cast iron with a cobalt-blue glass mounted within it. An iron handle is screwed to the frame with a hang hole at its end. On the top and bottom of the frame, respectively, “FLYNN & EMRICH CO.” and “HUBER STOKERS” are cast into the metal. Flynn & Emrich Co. manufactured the Huber Hand Stoker, a machine used for firing bituminous coal for steam, for which the inspection glass would have been useful. This inspection glass provides an example of safety devices of the early twentieth century as industry and business expanded.
label: Description
content: This object was donated by Robert H. Moore, a tool collector based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Moore collected more than 6,000 old tools and organized a hidden museum in the basement of his home. Moore inherited his fascination with and life interest in tools from his father, specifically when he began a tool rental business during the Great Depression.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert H. Moore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0756.06
label: accession number
content: 1987.0756
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0756.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: screen
label: Object Name
content: glass screen
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 3/8 in; 24.765 cm x 17.145 cm x .9525 cm