Hotpoint Electric Flatiron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1931
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Electric flatiron. Metal, triangular-shaped body, matte heating soleplate, chrome-plated upper body. Temperature guide on top of body, lines debossed into metal, with “HIGH/LOW” on either side in serif font, debossed. Molded plastic pointer/selector, tiered, circular, pointed, black. Handle comprised of bent metal, attached with screws to body, with molded wooded grip, horizontal, painted silver (paint worn), molded plastic thumb piece, black. Two-pronged power cord attachment above heel rest, cord missing. Heel rest has attached metal plate, printed: “FOR ALTERNATING CURRENT ONLY/GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE)/Hot Point/CALROD/FEATHER WEIGHT/CAT.NO. 119F96 GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. U.S.A./VOLTS 115 WATTS 1000/PAT.1269106 1367341 1539605 1742558 1743073 1795180 RE 16654”.
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: 1269106, June 11, 1918, Wynn Meredith, assignor to Hotpoint Electric Heating Company, Ontario, California, for “Thumb-rest”
label: Description
content: 1367341, February 1, 1921, Charles C. Abbott, assignor to General Electric Company, New York, for “Electric heating unit”
label: Description
content: 1539605, May 26, 1925, Albert H. Simmons, assignor to Edison Electric Appliance Company, Chicago, Illinois/New York, for “Electric flatiron”
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content: 1742558, January 7, 1930, Charles P. Randolph, assignor to Edison Electric Appliance Company, Chicago, Illinois/New York, for “Electric heater”
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content: 1743073, January 7, 1930, Albert H. Simmons, assignor to Edison Electric Appliance Company, Chicago, Illinois/New York, for “Temperature-control device”
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content: 1795180 , March 3, 1931, Edwin A. Peterson, assignor to Edison Electric Appliance Company, Chicago, Illinois/New York, for “Flatiron"
label: Description
content: Maker is General Electric Company, founded in 1878 as Edison Electric Light Company, GE was formed in 1892 by merging the Edison Electric Light Company and Thomson-Houston Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3012.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3012
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3012.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (thumb piece material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 8 in x 4 1/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.795 cm