Cooking Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1844-06-24
label: patent date
content: 1844-06-24
name: label: inventor
content: Camp, Henry W.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 3,640) of a cooking stove made by Henry W. Camp of Owego, NY and patented on June 24, 1844; finish resembles wood. Features two ovens, one along bottom and the other above it at one side; top plate of stove has four circular holes for cooking vessels, two above the upper oven and two above the firebox. Missing second firebox with grate that slides under hearth at one end. Several oven doors and all four legs gone. Engraved with the inventor's name and location at end with oval smoke pipe hole. Darkened paper tag with purple wove ribbon is printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Owego
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Oswego
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251450
label: catalog number
content: 251450
label: patent number
content: 3,640
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, cooking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, sheet (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (latches, oven bottom material)
label: Physical Description
content: tinned sheet iron (firebox and oven linings material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (firebox and oven linings material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 6 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 15.5575 cm x 10.4775 cm