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- OBJECT TYPE
- DESK/ELECTRIC
- DATE
- 1930
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.0557.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Robbins & Myers
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- CAST IRON BASE & HOUSING/ CAST WHITE METAL FAN GUARD/ PRESSED STEEL BLADES/ BRASS MFR'S LOGO PLATE/ FIBRE CORD COVERING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 25.5 cm
- Width
- 20.2 cm
- Height
- 32.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Domestic Technology
- Category
- Environment control
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Robbins Myers
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
In the first decades of the 20th c. manufacturers of electric appliances redesigned their products to attract upper class customers. This Art Deco fan is a good example of this process. - Function
-
TO PRODUCE A STREAM OF MOVING AIR FOR COOLING PURPOSES - Technical
-
An example of a technology that was first disseminated at the end of the 19th century as office technology and then rebranded in the early 1900s as a domestic appliance. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- RAISED LETTERS ON SLIGHTLY CONVEX, ROUND MFR'S PLATE ON BASE READ: 'R & M' (INTERTWINED)
- Missing
- PLUG OR SOCKET CONNECTOR/ PIECES OF FAN GUARD From CA of 03/07/1994 by Tony Missio: Yes - missing much of front of blade guard
- Finish
- BASE, MOTOR HOUSING, BLADES & FAN GUARD PAINTED BLACK/ MFR'S LOGO PLATE BRASS UNFINISHED/ FIBRE CORD COVERING BLACK
- Decoration
- BRASS PLATE ON BASE CONTAINS MFR'S INITIALS SUPERIMPOSED OVER RIPPLING FLAG, SURROUNDED BY GEOMETRIC BORDER DESIGN/ STEPPED PROFILE TO BASE MIRRORS ART DECO SHAPE
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Robbins & Myers, Fan, circa 1930, Artifact no. 1992.0557, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.0557.001/
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