Brooks Water Wheel, Patent Model
Brooks Water Wheel, Patent Model
- Description
- This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patent issued to Edgar B. Brooks, of La Porte, Indiana, February 10, 1880; no. 224270.
- This is a nicely made brass model of an inward-flow reaction turbine having the register type of adjustable feed chutes or guide vanes and a cylinder water gate. The combination relieves the guide vanes of the function of cutting off the water when the wheel is to be stopped and makes it unnecessary that the guide vanes close perfectly, so that any looseness developed in them by wear is immaterial.
- Reference:
- This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- turbine, hydraulic, model
- patent model, water wheel turbine
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- date made
- 1880
- patent date
- 1880-02-10
- inventor
- Brooks, Edgar B.
- place made
- United States: Indiana
- associated place
- United States: Indiana, La Porte
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall-from catalog card: 14 in x 10 in; 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm
- overall: 12 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 31.115 cm x 24.13 cm x 21.59 cm
- ID Number
- MC.309689
- catalog number
- 309689
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 224,270
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
- Bulletin 173
- Engineering, Building, and Architecture
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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