Armature for motor or generator
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An armature for a motor or generator. Steel axle on which is mounted a web-type cylinder made with two red fiber (?) insulator frames wrapped with insulated thin copper wires. Eight bundled turn of wire overlap in a configuration that leaves 16 ventilating slots parallel to the axle. An 8-plate steel commutator drum is on one side of the cylinder and a screw thread is on that end of the axle. Paper label "J" on the face nearest the commutator.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Brown University, Div. of Engineering thru George M. Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.319298
label: catalog number
content: 319298
label: accession number
content: 235101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Armature
label: Other Terms
content: Armature; Components; Laboratory and Measurement; Laboratory and Measurement
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 2 1/4 in; x 25.4 cm x 5.715 cm