Object Details
- Description
- Automotive decelerometer with “GROVER PRODUCTS CO. / LOS ANGELES” and “DECEL-O-METER” and “PAT. NO. 1,552,681” inscriptions. Grover Products began in business in 1936, and received a copyright on the term “decel-o-meter” in 1937.
- Ref: Henry W. Davis, “Nut Lock,” U.S. Patent 1,552,681 (Sept. 8, 1925).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Grover Products Company
- date made
- 1930s
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 5 in x 5 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm x 13.335 cm
- overall: 5 in x 4 7/8 in x 6 in; 12.7 cm x 12.3825 cm x 15.24 cm
- Object Name
- decelerometer
