Edison bipolar generator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1887
name: label: maker
content: Edison Electric Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Donor reported: "This generator and another of similar make were installed near the foot of Corduroy Hill by the Cheyenne Electric Company in 1892 to supply power to Wardner Camp. Driven by water power from what became the High Line Flume, they could only supply the power end of the camp." The donor bought the system about November 1897 and furnished electricity from a power house. Marked: (plaque) “Edison Electric Company Bipolar D.C. Generator” and (cast): “Edison System / Patented Dec. 23,1879 / Aug. 22, 1882 / Sept. 19, 1882 / Oct. 10, 1882”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from The Bunker Hill Company, thru J. W. Kendrick
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0142.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0142
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0142.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: generator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 in x 30 in x 67 in; 132.08 cm x 76.2 cm x 170.18 cm