Electric Battery
name: label: maker
content: Voltamp Electric Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: A paper label in the lid of the wooden box reads in part “DIRECTIONS FOR VOLTAMP BATTERY NO. 7 ‘OLYMPIA’.” An inscription on the coil reads “VOLTAMP / TRADE MARK.” The Voltamp Electric Manufacturing Co. was established by Manus E. Fuld (1863-1956) in Baltimore, ca. 1904; it made batteries for medical purposes, and later electric trains.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Manus E. Fuld Dies At Age 93,” Baltimore Sun (June 3, 1956), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12061
label: catalog number
content: M-12061
label: accession number
content: 274347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Faradic Battery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 21 cm x 12.4 cm; 5 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in x 4 7/8 in