Direct current dynamo
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: No extant maker's markings. Unit on a wooden base. Field magnet shape similar to a Curtis & Crocker motor illustrated in Electric Power, January 1892, page xii. See also Mather Dynamo illustrated in Electrical World, 6 August 1887, page xi. Ring-shaped field with shuttle armature at bottom of ring. Brushes are metal laminates. Brushes appear to consist of copper strips mounted together. Shape of field magnets suggests C&C motor of about 1893.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Milton W. Monson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.315159
label: catalog number
content: 315159
label: accession number
content: 217658
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrical generator
label: Object Name
content: dc dynamo
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 9 in x 19 in; 43.18 cm x 22.86 cm x 48.26 cm