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- OBJECT TYPE
- MULTI-PURPOSE/ELECTRIC/PORTABLE
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0763.001
- MANUFACTURER
- ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TOOL CO.
- MODEL
- SPEED WAY/UCD
- LOCATION
- Cicero, Illinois, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 2898
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- STEEL CASING & PARTS/ RUBBER COVERED CORD/ SYNTHETIC PLUG, PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 33.6 cm
- Width
- 26.0 cm
- Height
- 10.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Motorized Ground Transportation
- Category
- Servicing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- ELECTRO MAGNETIC
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Illinois
- City
- Cicero
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- C. 1939
- Canada
-
FROM COLLECTION OF AUTOMOBILE PTS & SERVICING EQ ACQUIRED BY MR. T.H. OLIVER, FATHER OF DONOR, DURING CAREER IN AUTOMOTIVESERVICING. AFTER WORKING AT WILLYS-OVERLAND & FAIRBANKS-MORSE IN TORONTO, & IN AUTO GARAGE IN AURORA, IN 1931 HE BEGAN HIS OWN BUSINESS, ONE PART OF WHICH INVOLVED AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICAL SERVICING. - Function
-
PORTABLE POWER TOOL WHICH COULD BE FITTED WITH VARIETY OF TOOL HEADS SUCH AS DRILL, THIS ONE USED IN AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC REPAIR FACILITY. - Technical
-
EARLY EXAMPLE OF UNITARY, SELF-POWERED & SELF-CONTAINED POWER TOOL REQUIRING ONLY ATTACHMENT TO ELECTRICAL SOURCE. BY END OF CENTURY, PORTABLE POWER TOOLS WOULD BE MUCH LIGHTER & CONTAIN THEIR OWN POWER SUPPLY, FREEING THEM COMPLETELY FROM ALL EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS (REF. 1). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- RAISED LETTERING ON PLATE READS "ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TOOL CO./ Speed Way/ TYPE ULD NO. 2898 VOLTS 115/ UNIVERSAL/ CICERO?, ILL. ADJOINING CHICAGO, U.S.A."
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- CASING PAINTED DARK BROWN/ METALLIC PARTS/ BLACK RUBBER & SYNTHETIC
- Decoration
- N/A
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ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TOOL CO., Tool, power, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1997.0763, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0763.001/
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