heating element ?
Date1900-1950
Inventory Number1998-1-1577
ClassificationStove
Subject
Maker
American
Cultural Region
Dimensions5.1 x 22.2 x 10.1 cm (2 x 8 3/4 x 4 in.)
Material
DescriptionA stone brick with stove-top-like surfaces in which there are circular impressions, in the middle of which are circular cavities with metal wires coiled around them and going all the way through to the mouth of the cavities on the other side of the brick, where there are wire contacts.
Signedunsigned
FunctionPerhaps an early form of electric stove.
Radio Corporation of America
Date: 1920-1930
Accessories: red cardboard cylinder case
Object number: VT5195
AudioTron Sales Company
Date: 1920-1930
Accessories: red cardboard cylinder case
Object number: VT5194
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
Date: 1860-1880
Accessories: instrument parts of various shapes and sizes (b)
Object number: 1997-1-0255a
Henri G. Galeotti
Date: 1830-1858
Object number: 1998-1-1450
Alnor Instrument Company
Date: 1930-1940
Accessories: thermocouples (2); arm; mercury thermometer
Object number: 2002-1-0031
George Adams (I)
Date: circa 1766
Accessories: original case
Object number: DW0955
Aston & Mander Company, Ltd.
Date: circa 1915
Accessories: double shelved mahogany case
Object number: 1989-4-0011
American Ever Ready Company
Date: circa 1930
Accessories: red cardboard cylinder case
Object number: VT5201
Stanley Smith Stevens
Date: 1941
Object number: 1997-1-1909
American
Date: 1915-1930
Object number: 2008-1-0127