Toy Electric Motor
date: label: date made
content: 1900
label: date made
content: .'1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This electric motor is possibly a Weeden No. 117 motor that was manufactured by the Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts from around 1916 until 1918. The motor turns the drive wheel, which could be attached to a line shaft with pulleys to power a variety of machine shop toy accessories.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.329038
label: catalog number
content: 329038
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: flywheel - from catalog card: 2 in; x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 3 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 8.89 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 8.89 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm