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Institute - History - The invention of the electric motor 1800-1854 (kit.edu)

I was going to guess Crocker-Wheeler as well, based on the zoom. Looks like it!

Your stator looks outwardly great. I recently restored one that for some reason, the shop had removed the bearing, which meant whenever it was moved, the cooling fins in the rotor scraped against the stator, resulting in the entire bottom of the stator being bare. I fished it out of a dumpster when they cleared out, and ended up reinsulating with triple thick glaze. My ususal process is to heat up the stator with a DC power supply, and it seems to "suck in" the varnish toward the heat. It meggars out to 20 so I consider it healthy. Anywhere, here is the result. These are very well made fans and pretty reslilient. 84E177DD-75A5-4476-93E4-512326B8C7F4.MOV

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Happy B-day!, Paul.

I've sent the patent description to my physics friend. She is way smarter then me.

Thank you. I'll save for this weekend.

Google Patents US494978

Still don't understand how this is supposed to tilt back and forth. Or is it rotating around a pivot point?

I am not 100% on this but studying the fan using the enlarging feature on the image in the link below, the fan appears to me to be at a tilt. The other thing I see off to the right of the bottom right wing is what appears to be a pole winding. 'Steve Brodie in His Bar, the New York City Tavern' Photographic Print - American Photographer | Art.com

Please post the pictures.

Stan, no disrespect intended to you and those who played a part in the efforts to salvage the old website. It appears my choice of words in my previous post here and lack of knowledge of ALL that went down to gain access the old website posts was wrong. You and those involved have my sincere apology. I too, like you, enjoyed the easy navigation of the old website, and access to the years of posts through key words on Google, or the old website search engine. I can't do the same now with the new old forum access. That is no fault of those involved that made a diligent effort to salvage the old website. If members are using it to their benefit, then all the efforts and cost were worth it. If the old website is full of malware and needed to be shut down, it is what it is.

There's a previous post on that fan with better pictures.

If you take a closer look at the fan using the enlarging feature in the link provided, pay closer attention to the fan being what appears to be a "tilt". 'Steve Brodie in His Bar, the New York City Tavern' Photographic Print - American Photographer | Art.com

Warped and split!

Id say it's an 1890s pancake of some type. The blade profile matches. You cant really see it but there are distortions in the blades probably where the inner ring of the cage passes in front of them. That diameter looks similar to pancake cage then. I think it is a fan like this 1898 one.

Getting closer to finishing this guy up!

Happy Birthday Brother Paul Hope you have a blessed Day,and many more

Thanks Stan. I searched Palmer and came away with a very cool post from the old site. Nothing came up about the Palmer House except a member reminiscing about his parents being specific collectors of its memorabilia. When searching for the old posts on plugs and adapters, all of the old posts came up. Not debating it, but I've been satisfied with what turns up from the old site.

Good morning, I'm going to chime in on this as there still seems to be a lot of confusion over the old website in spite of my best efforts to be clear. Your board of directors spent a significant amount of your dues money salvaging all of the old forums & relocating them to the new website. This took an incredible amount of effort led by Larry Hancock, Lane Shirey, & Jamie along with our current web host. Converting 1990s technology over to 2024 technology did not come easy & crashed the site numerous times in the process. Thanks to these efforts, all of that info is now protected on the new website. It was a near miracle the info was backed up during one of the very few times it was clear of malware. For quite sometime it was believed we could never get it back. I loved the old website, it was simple & easy to navigate. It also was no longer supported by the web host & had been taken over by malware. It had not had a security update since the Windows XP days. Since it was so full of malware, Jamie & I made a shared decision to shut it down, but the info is here.

Can anyone identify the fan? 'Steve Brodie in His Bar, the New York City Tavern' Photographic Print - American Photographer | Art.com

Years back I was at an indoor auction in a small town in central Illinois. They had hay wagons full of stuff to auction in the building. Numerous Antique/vintage fans. My stiffest competition was bidding on a few nice brass fans was an Amish gentleman. The rest of the bidders on the fans would fall out around $40-$50. The Amish guy would be my only competition before the hammer came down. He would always bow out between $50-$60. I can't stand sitting at auctions for too long, it drives me nuts. I left a nice complete GE Round back there which I am confident the Amish guy got for $50. I am sure the guy bidding on the fans were glad to see me go. 🙂 In our area there is what is called an Amish Walmart. They buy and sell for profit electrical goods from estates to a mixed crowd.