Object Details
- patentee
- Fowler, Francis
- inventor
- Fowler, Francis
- Description
- Francis Fowler of New Haven, Connecticut, submitted this model with his patent for a tricycle equipped with a ratchet connection in the hub of each driving wheel. The patent was issued patent number 224,165 on February 3, 1880. The allowed the outer of the two driving wheels to rotate freely on the crankshaft when the machine was making a sharp turn, thus d the function of a modern automobile differential unit. This model of the Fowler tricycle was transferred from the U.S. Patent Office to the Smithsonian in 1926. It is not known that this tricycle was ever manufactured.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1880
- patent date
- 1880-02-03
- ID Number
- TR.309257
- catalog number
- 309257
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 224,165
- Object Name
- patent model, tricycle
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Other Terms
- patent model, tricycle; tricycle; Road
- Measurements
- overall: 10 in x 11 in x 11 in; 25.4 cm x 27.94 cm x 27.94 cm
- associated place
- United States: Connecticut, New Haven
- Associated Place
- United States: Connecticut
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Patent Models
- Record ID
- nmah_842918
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-63fb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
