Weeden No. 101 Electric Motor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden no. 101 electric generator was produced by the Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1912 until 1918. The toy is an electromagnetic generator, producing a direct electric current through the rotation of a wire coil in a magnetic field. The center axel of the generator could be connected to the flywheel of a Weeden steam engine, rotating the center coil, turning mechanical power into electricity.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Weeden Manufacturing Company was founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts by William M. Weeden in the early 1880s, originally producing a variety of tinplate household items. In 1884 it introduced the Weeden No. 1 Steam engine as “a new and great premium for boys” who were subscribers to the <i>Youth’s Companion</i> magazine. Weeden made over a hundred different models of toy steam engines until the company ceased operations in 1952.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
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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.329036
label: catalog number
content: 329036
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 4 in x 6 in x 4 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: flywheel - from catalog card: 2 5/8 in; x 6.6675 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 1/2 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 11.43 cm x 15.24 cm