Langes Legetoy Toy Lathe
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This toy lathe was manufactured by the Danish company H. Langes Legetoy around the middle of the 20th century. The lathe is made of a cast metal base that is painted red. The pulley is used to spin the spindle part of the lathe, and the tool rest is able to slide to change the bed length. H. Langes Legetoy produced a variety of toy machine tools including a trip-hammer, grindstone, drill press, shaper, punch press, circular saw, tumbler, lathe, and grinder. These tools would often be arranged on a single board with a line shaft allowing all the machines to be operated simultaneously from a single power source.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The company was formed by four men: Henning H. Langes, Alfred Nielsen, Kaj Christiansen and later E. Leager-Larsen. Langes was the financier and head of sales, Nielsen was the shop foreman, and Christiansen and Leager-Larsen were the toolmakers and designers.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The company began manufacturing out of a factory basement at no.19 Nyrnberggade in Amager (a suburb of Copenhagen) in 1945. Advertisements for H. Langes toys began circulating in the latter part of 1946.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Denmark: Copenhagen
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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.329080
label: catalog number
content: 329080
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, lathe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: white metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 1 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 13.6525 cm x 2.8575 cm