Engine, stationary
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- OBJECT TYPE
- gasoline/4 cycle/4 cylinder/vertical
- DATE
- 1913
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.3070.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Bruce-MacBeth Engine Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 689
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 6
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal engine with some glass
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 370.0 cm
- Width
- 190.0 cm
- Height
- 350.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Energy-electric
- Category
- Generation
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Bruce MacBeth
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Ohio
- City
- Cleveland
Context
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Period
- 1913-1965
- Canada
-
Fait partie de la collection Hydro-Ontario. Cette collection acquise par le musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada en 1992 documente la culture matérielle de l’histoire de l’électricité et ses usages. Cet engin à gaz a d’abord été commandé par la Wallaceburg Gas Company en Ontario en 1913 avant d’être utilisé par la West Penn Power Company, à Emporium, Pennsylvania à compter de 1934 (référence Ontario Hydro). Information tirée d’une lettre de Monongahela Power Company à Dietrich, 12 avril 1965, archives Ontario Hydro. Part of the Ontario Hydro Collection. This collection was acquired by the CSTM in 1992. It documents the material culture of the history of electricity and its uses. - Function
-
Pour produire de l’électricité. (From Worksheet, see Ref. 1) - Technical
-
Va avec l’alternateur 1992.2303. Son excitatrice était 1992.1856 mais celle-ci fut aliénée faute de documentation à l’époque. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Bruce-MacBeth Engine Co., Engine, stationary, circa 1913, Artifact no. 1992.3070, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1992.3070.001/
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