Froment direct current motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1845
name: label: maker
content: Froment, Paul-Gustave
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A wooden base with a Froment motor. Three pairs of electromagnets in a brass frame. A brass armature with six steel bars rotates in the center with a gear on one end and a commutator on the other. Nameplate on base reads: "Froment / a Paris". Originally from Woodstock College. Reference: Ganot, "Physics" 4th edition, page 763.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Weston College, Dept. of Physics thru Father Robert F. O'Brien
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.328470
label: accession number
content: 271661
label: catalog number
content: 328470
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 10 1/2 in x 14 in; 22.86 cm x 26.67 cm x 35.56 cm