Blade, windmill
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- OBJECT TYPE
- Metal
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2008.0030.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Ontario Wind Engine & Pump Co.
- MODEL
- Toronto
- LOCATION
- Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 6
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- galvanized steel
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Power sources
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Ontario Wind
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Mr. Mott actively collected windmills after his retirement from Ontario Hydro in the mid 1970s. Before that he acquired windmills as he came across them in the course of his lineman duties in south central and southwestern Ontario. The majority of this windmill including its sections are made of galvanized. The sections are fixed to a central hub. A vane is used to "catch" the wind and direct the sections to face into the wind. The gear box was mounted directly on top of and pivoted the tip of the tower. Unlike many of its windmill manufacturing contemporaries the Ontario Wind Engine and Pump Company sold a complete line of yard well pumps as well as pitcher models designed to be mounted beside the kitchen sink. These windmills were marketed across Canada through a network of dealers. As was most often the instance Toronto windmills would have been only one of the many products carried by these largely rural retailers. Through the representation of a large range of different types of equipment from wagons to windmills an individual retailer was able to carve out a successful market niche. This windmill as with all the others Mr. Mott displayed in his yard is in excellent operable condition. It is uncertain if the painted trademark on the vane is original or whether Mr. Mott copied it from another in his collection. - Function
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Part of a windmill/ All parts to this catalogue number form a windmill. - Technical
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The most important technological feature of the Toronto was its enclosed and self-oiling gear box. The self-oiling function became commonly available in the United States and Canada in the period just after WWI. Elgin Wind Power and Pump is credited with being the first firm to offer a truly self-oiling gear box. Like the majority of the other fixed vane technology windmills the "Toronto" was equipped with a rod from the gear box to near the ground that allowed it to be taken out of gear to prevent damage in heavy windstorms. Another of its notable technological features that was used to differentiate from the competition was the mounting a metal ring through the centre of the vanes part of the way end from the outer edge. This feature had the effect of offering much greater vane stability in strong winds. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- none
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Blades are galvanized metal with light blue painted leading edges/ Structural supports, outer rims and inner rims are made of unpainted galvanized steel
- Decoration
- N/A
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Ontario Wind Engine & Pump Co., Blade, windmill, circa 1920, Artifact no. 2008.0030, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2008.0030.003/
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