Dryer, hair
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ELECTRIC/HAND-HELD
- DATE
- 1950
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2007.0261.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Handy-Hannah Co. of Canada Ltd.
- MODEL
- Handy-Hannah
- LOCATION
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- It has a light green metal body with holes on either side: silver metal grill at the end of the body; metal hardware; metal Off/On and Hot/Cold switches; wooden hollowed out handle; a light green synthetic two prong electrical cord with a synthetic clear end which securely fastened the plug to body of the dryer.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 27.0 cm
- Width
- 18.0 cm
- Height
- 12.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Domestic Technology
- Category
- Toilet article
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Handy-Hannah
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- City
- Montreal
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Example of an early type of electric hair dryer made in Canada. - Function
-
Used to remove moisture from a person's hair by means of ventilaltion and heat. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Mfr's plate:"225 WATTS - 110-120 VOLTS - A. C. ONLY/60 CYCLES - CAT. NO. 1295/HANDY-HANNAH/TRADE MARK REG./ELECTRIC HAIR DRYER/CSA. APR. NO. 10525/THE HANDY-HANNAH COMPANY OF CANADA LTD./MONTREAL, CANADA/ PRINTED IN U.S.A/[SA logo]/[UL logo]".
- Missing
- Nothing is missing.
- Finish
- It has a light green metal body with holes on either side: silver metal grill at the end of the body; metal hardware; metal Off/On and Hot/Cold switches; wooden hollowed out handle; a light green synthetic two prong electrical cord with a synthetic clear end which securely fastened the plug to body of the dryer.
- Decoration
- There are four lines grooved into the wooden handle.
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Handy-Hannah Co. of Canada Ltd., Dryer, hair, circa 1950, Artifact no. 2007.0261, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2007.0261.001/
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