Parris-Dunn "Hy-tower" wind-driven battery charger
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1938
name: label: maker
content: Parris-Dunn Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: A 6 volt wind-driven generator with tower. Intended to recharge batteries for country-home use. Includes paper instruction manual. See US Patent 2178047, 31 October 1939 to Elmer K. Malme.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.335482
label: catalog number
content: 335482
label: accession number
content: 322649
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Generator
label: Object Name
content: wind turbine
label: Object Name
content: generator
label: Object Name
content: wind turbine, generator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: propeller: 72 in x 4 in x 1 in; 182.88 cm x 10.16 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: generator assembly: 28 in x 5 in x 64 in; 71.12 cm x 12.7 cm x 162.56 cm