Western Electric type G3 direct current motor
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1895
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Nameplate reads: "Western Electric Co. Motor / Type G3 No. 4455 / Volts:110 Revolutions: 1200". This machine is of bi-polar construction with field magnet poles on top of the field coils to concentrate magnetic flux through the armature. Commutator and brushes are on one side of the armature shaft. Construction resembles Thomson-Houston motors of 1895 period. Reference: very similar to Thomson-Houston motor illustrated page 156 of Houston & Kennelly, Alternating Electric Currents, (New York, 1895).
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.318256
label: catalog number
content: 318256
label: accession number
content: 233317
label: serial number
content: 4455
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motor
label: Object Name
content: electric motor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 18 in x 34 in; 48.26 cm x 45.72 cm x 86.36 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 18 in x 37 in; 48.26 cm x 45.72 cm x 93.98 cm