Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This Peerless brand toy steam engines was manufactured around 1900. The overtype engine consists of a horizontal boiler with sight glass and lever safety valve. A slide valve engine powers a flywheel on top of the boiler. The engine sits on an iron frame which is painted with red stripes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- MC.329002
- catalog number
- 329002
- accession number
- 278175
- Object Name
- toy, steam engine and boiler
- steam engine and boiler, toy
- Physical Description
- cast iron (overall material)
- Measurements
- flywheel: 5 1/4 in; x 13.335 cm
- boiler: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; x 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm
- overall: 9 1/4 in; 23.495 cm
- overall: 9 3/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 23.8125 cm x 24.13 cm x 12.065 cm
- Related Publication
- Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
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- Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
- Family & Social Life
- Engineering, Building, and Architecture
- Engineering Steam Toys and Models
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_847146
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-834c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
