Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See MAH-29682 or 29,682 for another image of this motor.
- Summary
- Slightly turned view of the Smithsonian's replica of Joseph Henry's Princeton University oscillating electromagnet motor. Henry constructed this motor while teaching at Princeton in the 1830s. The motor was a simple device, whose moving part was a straight electromagnet rocking on a horizontal axis. Henry, who would later become the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, believed his machine was important as the first demonstration of continuous motion produced by magnetic attraction and repulsion.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accesssion 11-006
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1830s
- Standard number
- MAH-16188 or 16,188
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Object
- Negative
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 8w x 10h ; Type of Image: Object ; Medium: Negative
- Place
- United States
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Inventions
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Historical models
- Motors
- Secretaries
- Science
- Electromagnetism
- Magnets
- Electric motors
- Inventors
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13541
