General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

ALUMINUM BASE & PROPELLER, METAL PARTS; ACRYLIC PLASTIC TUBE; WOOD AIR FOIL; METAL MOTOR CASING & PARTS WITH SYNTHETIC PARTS; RUBBER FEET; PAPER LABEL

Dimensions

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

Length

64.4 cm

Width

13.6 cm

Height

19.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Meteorology

Category

Demonstration & teaching equipment

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

CENCO

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1960'S

Canada

POSSIBLY USED OR INTENDED FOR USE AT CANADA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AS EXHIBIT OR IN PUBLIC PROGRAMMING. NO OTHER EXAMPLES EXIST IN COLLECTION (EXCEPT FOR AVIATION WIND TUNNELS) & NONE WERE FOUND ON CANADIAN HERITAGE INFORMATION NETWORK SITE.

Function

APPARATUS IN WHICH HIGH-SPEED MOVEMENT OF AIR OR OTHER GAS IS GENERATED BY MOTORIZED FAN IN ORDER TO STUDY FLOW OF AIR & GASES, & AERODYNAMIC FORCES ACTING UPON AIR FOIL PLACED WITHIN TUNNEL. THIS SMALL WIND TUNNEL IS DEMONSTRATION DEVICE USED TO ILLUSTRATE PRINCIPLES OF FLUID MECHANICS.

Technical

ECONOMICAL WAY OF EXPOSING STUDENTS TO BERNOULLI PRINCIPLE (REF. 1). BERNOULLI'S THEOREM DESCRIBES ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONS IN FLUID MECHANICS, OR STUDY OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS & GASES IN MOTION & AT REST. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY 18TH CENTURY SWISS MATHEMATICIAN DANIEL BERNOULLI & EXAMINES RELATIONSHIPS OF VELOCITIES, PRESSURES ETC. OF FLUID STREAMS. THIS INSTRUMENT COULD BE USED HORIZONTALLY WITH CENCO 76465 LIQUID MANOMETER; VERTICALLY WITH AIR FOIL REMOVED, COULD BE USED WITH LIQUID INTRODUCED BY EYEDROPPER, OR STYROFOAM & PING-PONG BALLS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

LABEL ON TUBE READS IN YELLOW "ATOMIC LABORATORIES, INC." & IN BLACK "A DIVISION OF/ CENCO INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION/ CAT. NO. 76464 / VOLTS 115 AC 50/60 CYCLES/ WATTS 46/ AL [LOGO]"/ PLATE ON MOTOR READS IN RED "Dayton [SCRIPT]/ AC-DC SERIES MOTOR/ 115 VOLTS MODEL 2M083/ H.P. 1/15 5000 R.P.M./ DAYTON ELECTRIC MFG. CO. CHICAGO 48 U.S.A."

Missing

COULD BE USED WITH ACCESSORIES SUCH AS LIQUID MANOMETER, LIQUIDS INTRODUCED BY EYEDROPPER, STYROFOAM & PING-PONG BALLS From CA of 11/05/2001 by Matthew Bruce: Yes - .001: missing one cotter pin. .002: complete

Finish

METALLIC BASE & PROPELLER; COLOURLESS, TRANSPARENT TUBE; BROWN PAINTED AIR FOIL; METALLIC & BRASS COLOURED PARTS; BROWN PAINTED MOTOR CASING WITH BLACK POWER CORD; BLACK FEET

Decoration

N/A