Weston direct current generator
date: label: date made
content: ca1876
name: label: maker
content: Weston
label: maker
content: Weston Electrical Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Weston DC dynamo, no extant markings. This machine incorporates flat field coil construction with rotating central armature. Two carbon brushes are used (one missing) with adjustable tension by set screws and a sliding bolt mechanism. Brush mounting on a rocker assembly permits varying brush position on the commutator. A coupling bolt is affixed to one end of the armature shaft.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reference: Although this specimen has only two field magnets, the general constructions is similar to other 4-magnet Weston machines such as illustrated on page 23 of U. S. Electric Lighting Co. catalog, 1883.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Department of Physics thru A. G. Shenstone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318540
label: catalog number
content: 318540
label: accession number
content: 232728
objectType: label: Object Name
content: generator
label: Object Name
content: generator, Weston dc
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 1/2 in x 51 in x 44 in; 52.07 cm x 129.54 cm x 111.76 cm