Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Cyrus Avery received a patent in 1860 for his horse-power machine. This patent model depicts the mechanism that converts “horse-power” (a horse was connected by a pole to the mechanism turning the gear) which would power machines.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- Gift of Clarence B. Avery
- Object Name
- model
