USI 2A2 box of tools and spare parts for airplane generator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1917
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Service kit for aircraft electrical generator. Hinged wooden box with hinged top, ten compartments. Contents of compartments (clockwise from top left) are: 1) 1 capped oiler, 2 split pins, 9 hex nuts (3 larger, 6 smaller), 6 flat washers, 12 lock washers (6 larger, 6 smaller); 2) 1 sealed bottle of lubricating oil, "45" molded on bottom; 3) 1 double-sided hex wrench; 4) 2 hex-head bolts, 5 slotted cap-head bolts, 1 hex nut, 4 drift pins; 5) 2 pieces of all-thread, 1 all-thread in a rectangular bar, 1 steel bar with 2 holes, 4 brass star plates "9274" (each with a different number of points: 6, 8, 12, and 16, respectively), 1 sheet of sandpaper; 6) 4 carbon brushed with stranded copper leads; 7) 1 slotted cap-head bolt, 1 copper bush on a brass rod with 2 brass hex nuts; 8) 2 rubber bushings, 2 rubber washers; 9) 2 patch cords insulated with braided cloth; 10) empty. Brass label on top: "Trousse Mod le U / Etab TS Gaumont, Paris", stenciled: "USI 2 A2".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the United States Bureau of Standards, Dept. of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.313514
label: catalog number
content: 313514
label: accession number
content: 188571
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Miscellaneous Parts, Box of
label: Object Name
content: radio parts
label: Object Name
content: radio parts kit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 14 in; 5.715 cm x 20.955 cm x 35.56 cm