Franz Electric Metronome
date: label: date made
content: 1940-1950
name: label: manufacturer
content: Franz Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This metronome was made by Franz Manufacturing Co. in New Haven, Connecticut, around 1940-1950. It an electric metronome, model LM-2, made of bakelite, with a metal and bakelite dial for selecting speed of 40 to 208 beats-per-minutes.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This metronome features U. S. Patent #2150967, dated March 21. 1939, by Frederick Franz for an electrically driven metronome.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Albert F. and Lorette M. Moglie
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0501.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0501.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0501
objectType: label: Object Name
content: metronome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bakelite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 5 in x 4 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm x 11.43 cm
label: Measurements
content: wire: 14 1/2 in; 36.83 cm