Generator, D.C. Wallace-Farmer Electric Plating Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1875
name: label: maker
content: Wallace-Farmer
label: maker
content: Wallace & Sons
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Nameplate: "Manufactured by Wallace & Sons, Ansonia, Conn." Exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876 and the Franklin Institute Fair. It is largely of Moses Farmer's design. Two sets of field magnets (six each) are mounted on either side of a bobbin-type armature. Six copper strip brushes are used on commutators located on located on either side of the frame. The shaft runs through pedestal mounts and has belt coupling wheels on either end. Reference: Algave and Boulard, The Electric Light, page 287.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Ansonia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Coe Brass Manufacturing Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181641
label: accession number
content: 32363
label: catalog number
content: 181641
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wallace electro-plating dynamo
label: Object Name
content: electrical generator
label: Object Name
content: dynamo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel, copper, iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 in x 56 in x 15 in; 55.88 cm x 142.24 cm x 38.1 cm