General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal body (possibly brass), scale, and components. Glass window. Textile covered wire.

Dimensions

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

Length

13.0 cm

Width

13.0 cm

Height

2.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

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Diameter

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Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Energy-electric

Category

Measurement

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Beede

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Acquired by the Ontario Hydro Museum to represent the makers & types of electrical instruments in use at the period.

Function

Measures DC current and voltage of batteries in amperes and volts. This type of pocket meter was used to test the batteries in early radios and in automobiles.

Technical

An offspring of the Whitney Electrical Instrument Company, Beede was founded by Walter E. Beede in the early 1900's. The Company was located in Penacook, New Hampshire. Two years after having sold the Company to a group of New York City businessmen in 1927, Mr. Beede was able to reassume control of the Beede Company soon after the Great Depression struck. The pocket type meters continued to be manufactured but only in limited amounts. Around this time, Beede developed and later patented the meter movement now reffered to as the number 60 conventional frame type D'Arsonval movement.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On face: '0 10 20 30 40 50/ 10 10 30 40 50/ VOLT AMMETER/ BEEDE METER/ PAT APPL'D FOR/ VOLTS AMPS/ MADE IN U.S.A.'

Missing

N/A

Finish

Silver tone body & components green cord; transparent windows.

Decoration

N/A