Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This electric motor is possibly a Weeden No. 117 motor that was manufactured by the Weeden Manufacturing Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts from around 1916 until 1918. The motor turns the drive wheel, which could be attached to a line shaft with pulleys to power a variety of machine shop toy accessories.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
- 1900
- .'1900
- ID Number
- MC.329038
- catalog number
- 329038
- accession number
- 278175
- Object Name
- toy, electric motor
- Measurements
- flywheel - from catalog card: 2 in; x 5.08 cm
- overall - from catalog card: 3 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 8.89 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 8.89 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm
- Related Publication
- Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
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- Record ID
- nmah_847194
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-8414-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
