Reciprocating Armature Engine
Reciprocating Armature Engine
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- Description
- Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868), an early American electrical scientist, devised this type of reciprocating armature engine in the late 1830s, and presented it “as proof that electro-magnetism is susceptible of useful application where only a small power is wanted.” Daniel Davis, Jr., in Boston, made Page’s original instrument. Later examples were to be had from other instrument makers. This unsigned example came from Vassar College.
- Ref: Charles G. Page, “Magneto-Electric and Electro-Magnetic Apparatus and Experiments,” American Journal of Science 35 (1839): 252-268, on 263-265.
- Daniel Davis, Manual of Magnetism (Boston, 1842), pp. 112-113.
- Benjamin Pike, Jr., Pike’s Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments (New York, 1856), vol. 2, pp. 30-31.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- reciprocating armature engine
- Reciprocating Armature Engine
- date made
- mid-nineteenth century
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in; 18.7325 cm x 31.75 cm x 13.97 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0318.05
- catalog number
- 1980.0318.05
- accession number
- 1980.0318
- subject
- Science & Scientific Instruments
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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