Brush Dynamo
date: label: date made
content: ca1884
name: label: maker
content: Brush Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This unit may be the item pictured on page 116 of MacLaren's, The rise of the electrical industry during the nineteenth century, (Fig.74, page 120). At the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1884, Brush showed an improved armature design in which he employed a sheet steel core. Magnetic losses were reduced and the capacity of his 40 light generator increased to 65 lights.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University, thru A. G. Shenstone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.322767
label: catalog number
content: 322767
label: accession number
content: 248683
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrical generator
label: Object Name
content: dynamo
label: Object Name
content: Brush Dynamo
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 41 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 40.005 cm x 105.41 cm x 36.83 cm