General Information

Serial #

134

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

wood, metal and synthetic components

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

21.6 cm

Width

16.3 cm

Height

18.3 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Medical equipment

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Wappler

Country

United States of America

State/Province

New York

City

New York

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Presumably used in early 20th c.

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.

Function

To measure dust. [Ref. 3]

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"Electric Clonophore/ WAPPLER/ ELECTRIC CO./ NEW YORK/ PAT. APP'D FOR/ A.C.M.I./ [logo]/ TRADE MARK/ REGIST'D NOV. 10 '09/ U.S.P.O." printed on metal plate fixed to upper right corner of control panel. "134" stamped into wood control panel, below mfr's plate. Plate mounted between two large dials on control panel reads SPEED/ CURRENT/ CONTROL/ STRENGTH". UHN catalogue no. "X969.224 A" printed by hand in white ink on underside of control panel. UHN catalogue no. "X969.224 B" printed by hand in white ink on case back, below right hinge.

Missing

Unknown. Two original batteries inside case previously disposed of: see Notes for details.

Finish

Medium brown wood case has silver metal hinges; medium brown wooden control panel houses metal [including brass] and synthetic [bakelite ?] components; cloth covered copper wires attach to batteries [now missing].

Decoration

N/A