Veeder Tachometer
name: label: maker
content: Veeder Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This type of tachometer measured the rotational speed of such things as shafts and flywheels. This inscription on this example reads "Veeder THE VEEDER M'F'G' CO: HARTFORD, CONN., U.S.A. / PAT. JULY 7, 1903 / JULY 24, 1906 / FEB. 6, 1912." A "B.S. 18671" stamp indicates that it was tested at the National Bureau of Standards. The 115 volt D.C. motor on the base has a “ROBBINS & MYERS CO” inscription and a "B.S. 17404" tag.
label: Description
content: Ref: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Tachometer,” U.S. Patent 733,358 (July 7, 1903).
label: Description
content: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Measuring or Indicating Instrument,” U.S. Patent 937,015 (Oct. 12, 1909).
label: Description
content: Curtis Hussey Veeder, “Tachometer,” U.S. Patent 1,016,906 (Feb. 6, 1912).
label: Description
content: “CURTIS H. VEEDER / Inventor and Manufacturer Made / Early High Wheel Bicycle,” New York Times (Dec. 28, 1943), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.330328
label: catalog number
content: 330328
label: accession number
content: 1978.0483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tachometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 1/4 in x 21 in x 36 in; 107.315 cm x 53.34 cm x 91.44 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in; 97.155 cm x 21.59 cm x 15.875 cm