Franz Electric Metronome: Museum Object and Cultural History
Franz Electric Metronome: date made: 1940-1950. manufacturer: Franz Manufacturing Co.. Object Name: metronome.
The object in the museum catalogue
This metronome was made by Franz Manufacturing Co. in New Haven, Connecticut, around 1940-1950. It an electric metronome, model LM-2, made of bakelite, with a metal and bakelite dial for selecting speed of 40 to 208 beats-per-minutes.
This metronome features U. S. Patent #2150967, dated March 21. 1939, by Frederick Franz for an electrically driven metronome.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1940-1950
- manufacturer: Franz Manufacturing Co.
- Object Name: metronome
- Physical Description: bakelite (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 4 in x 5 in x 4 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm x 11.43 cm
- Measurements: wire: 14 1/2 in; 36.83 cm
- place made: United States: Connecticut, New Haven
- ID Number: 1987.0501.01
- catalog number: 1987.0501.01
- accession number: 1987.0501
- Credit Line: Gift of Albert F. and Lorette M. Moglie
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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