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- OBJECT TYPE
- Electric/Adjust temp
- DATE
- 1955
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1980.0339.001
- MANUFACTURER
- General Electric Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 81/??
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Pressed steel casing. White metal sole plate. Synthetic handle and fabric selector. Soft rubber cord lift and cord. Synthetic plug and brass prongs.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 23.7 cm
- Width
- 12.2 cm
- Height
- 12.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Domestic Technology
- Category
- Laundry
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- General Electric
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Connecticut
- City
- Bridgeport
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- c. early 1960s.
- Canada
-
type used in Canada. Used in Ottawa in the early 1960s. - Function
-
To press textiles. Temperature control provided greater efficiency when pressing different styles and weights of textiles. - Technical
-
Highlights advances in the efficiency and ease of ironing. Temperature control was an innovation in this domestic technology that dates to the late 1920s. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Fabric selection dial reads: 'OFF….. SYN.RAY.WOOL.COT.LIN.' Decorative plate reads: 'GENERAL GE [logo] ELECTRIC' [appears twice on plate]. Info. below heel reads: 'CAT. NO. 17F34 WATTS 1100. VOLTS 120 A. C. ONLY/ GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. BRIDGEPORT. CONN./ UL [logo within a circle] MADE IN U.S.A. S1'. Info. printed on electrical cord reads: 'CORDS-18 TYPE HPN HEATER CORD 300 VOLTS – BY ROYAL'.
- Missing
- From CA of 04/21/1994 by Tony Missio: No - Complete
- Finish
- Black handle. Square pattern on decorative name/mfr. plate. Red General Electric logo appears twice on said plate.
- Decoration
- N/A
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General Electric Co., Iron, circa 1955, Artifact no. 1980.0339, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1980.0339.001/
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