Peerless Toy Steam Engine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Peerless brand toy steam engines was manufactured around 1900. The overtype engine consists of a horizontal boiler with sight glass and lever safety valve. A slide valve engine powers a flywheel on top of the boiler. The engine sits on an iron frame which is painted with red stripes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329002
label: catalog number
content: 329002
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, steam engine and boiler
label: Object Name
content: steam engine and boiler, toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: flywheel: 5 1/4 in; x 13.335 cm
label: Measurements
content: boiler: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; x 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in; 23.495 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 23.8125 cm x 24.13 cm x 12.065 cm