Weston direct current generator
date: label: date made
content: ca.1880
label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Weston Electrical Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Nameplate reads: "Manufactured by / Weston Dynamo Electric Machine Co. / Patented in the United States Jun 4, 1878 January 14, 1879.....1879 and / England France Belgium Austria Germany Italy and Spain / Newark N.J. USA". This machine has two poles, but divided pole cores, permitting four field coils to be used. A drum-wound slotted armature has large openings in the core below the slots which are connected with radial ventilating ducts to give a free path for the heated air. A pulley permits external belt coupling to the armature shaft. The brush mechanism is missing from this specimen. Reference: MacLaren, Rise of the Electrical Industry During the 19th Century, figure. 76, pages 117, 123.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Department of Physics thru A. G. Shenstone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318518
label: catalog number
content: 318518
label: accession number
content: 232728
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrical generator
label: Other Terms
content: Generator; Motors and Generators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 34 in x 27 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 86.36 cm x 69.215 cm