ARTIFACT WORKSHEET OH NO.: OH0845.032 Worksheet completed by : Suzanne Beauvais Collector : Anna Adamek Group : Énergie électrique/Electric Energy Category : User site/site d’utilisateur Article : distribution panel/panneau de distribution Type : electric/ home/3 wire Model : 50970 Serial number : Manufacturer : Crouse-Hinds address : Toronto, Ontario Canada Year manufactured : 1911-1920 Distributor : address : Source : Ontario Hydro Dimensions : l. w. h. Weight: Function : pour distribuer l’électricité à différents endroits dans un bâtiment tout en assurant une protection contre les surcharges électriques dans les circuits. TO DISTRIBUTE ELECTRICITY TO DIFFERENT AREAS OF A BUILDING, WHILE PROVIDING FUSED PROTECTION AGAINST THE OVERLOADING OF THE CIRCUITS References : Catalogue Ontario Hydro, section ME (édifice 2421A) Lettre de Heinz Peper, 28 décembre 2016
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ARTIFACT WORKSHEET
OH NO.: OH0845.032
Worksheet completed by: Suzanne Beauvais Collector: Anna Adamek
Group: Énergie électrique/Electric Energy Category: User site/site d’utilisateur
Article: distribution panel/panneau de distribution
Function: pour distribuer l’électricité à différents endroits dans un bâtiment tout en assurant une protection contre les surcharges électriques dans les circuits.
TO DISTRIBUTE ELECTRICITY TO DIFFERENT AREAS OF A BUILDING, WHILE PROVIDING FUSED PROTECTION AGAINST THE OVERLOADING OF THE CIRCUITS
References:Catalogue Ontario Hydro, section ME (édifice 2421A)
Lettre de Heinz Peper, 28 décembre 2016
http://www.ic.gc.ca
The Electrical News, 1914, https://ia802508.us.archive.org/27/items/electricalnews1914p1/electricalnews1914p1.pdf
http://www.cnyhistory.org/2017/01/crouse-hinds/
Patent references: Period of use: Area of use:, (Waterloo ?), Ontario
Significance to Canada:Panneau électrique manufacturé au Canada et utilisé au Canada
Fait partie de la collection Hydro-Ontario. Cette collection acquise par le musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada en 1992 documente la culture matérielle de l’histoire de l’électricité et ses usages. Avant d’appartenir à Hydro-Ontario, cet artefact appartenait à M. Heinz Peper, établi alors à Waterloo, Ontario. M. Peper a travaillé dans le domaine de l’électricité, a aussi enseigné l’électricité. Il a aussi été entrepreneur et fut bénévole pour le projet du musée d’Hydro-Ontario. Il a vendu une partie de sa collection à Hydro-Ontario.
Part of the Ontario Hydro Collection. This collection was acquired by the CSTM in 1992. It documents the material culture of the history of electricity and its uses.
La filiale de la compagnie-mère fondée en 1897 à Syracuse, New-York, vit le jour en 1911, à Toronto. Il semble que la filiale canadienne manufacturait les composantes électriques si l’on juge d’après l’adresse donnée dans les catalogues.
Significance to technology: L’épaisseur (1 po) de ce panneau d’ardoise était standard à l’époque pour la construction de panneaux de haute qualité pour les édifices à appartements ou les maisons de prestige selon M. Peper. Il se souvient que certaines de ces maisons avaient leur propre système de génération d’électricité.
Avec interrupteur à couteau munies de fusibles /with fused knife switches
Materials: metal, ardoise et… boutons de ?Missing parts: fusiblesMarkings:Étiquette Dymo: ME 1-3
60 AMPS125 VOLTS
Numéroté de chaque côté : chiffres impaires d’un côté- 1 à 19/ chiffres pairs de l’autre- 2 à 20
Plaque: Underwriters Laboratory Inc. inspected panelboard No 34667
Comments:
Histoire de Crouse-Hinds:
La compagnie a été fondée en 1897 par Huntington Beard Crouse et Jesse L. Hinds sous le nom de Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. Ils ont commencé la production de panneaux électriques de distribution et l’interrupteur breveté de Hinds. Quelques années plus tard ils ajoutèrent la production de conduits (1906). La firme s’incorpora en 1903 pour devenir Crouse-Hinds Company.
``On January 18th, 1897, the Crouse-Hinds Company opened, producing a patented trolley car headlight. Firm grew to produce switches, panel boards, electrical conduits, including explosion-proof installations; traffic lights, airport lighting, and even the lighting for Panama Canal.
Eaton’s Crouse –Hinds Business, credited with developing the first traffic light, had its beginnings when twenty-four year old Huntington Beard Crouse met fifty-one year old Jesse L. Hinds. Crouse was introduced to Hinds by his distant relative, Jacob Crouse, a prominent Syracuse businessman. Hinds wanted to start his own business, but lacked capital while Crouse was without a job, but had some money. On January 18, 1897, the papers were drawn to formalize the partnership and Crouse-Hinds Electric Company was born.
The partners leased a small space on East Water Street and began manufacturing electric panel boards, switchboards and Hinds’ own patented switch. Also occupying this building was the Changeable Electric Headlight Company. These lights were being manufactured for trolleys and could be used interchangeably on either end of the trolley.
The owner convinced Crouse-Hinds to take over the manufacture and sales of the lights on a royalty basis. This new facet of the business proved to be extremely profitable and, in 1900, the company moved to a larger facility on West Jefferson Street where they established their reputation as a condulet (electrical devices used in connection with industrial wiring) manufacturing company. The business incorporated as the Crouse-Hinds Company in 1903 and continued to grow necessitating another move. Eventually, twenty five acres were purchased and a large factory was built at the company’s present location at the corner of 7th North and Wolf Streets.
Just prior to this move, Jesse Hinds announced his retirement. (Huntington B. Crouse continued on as the President until his death in 1943 at the age of 70.) The manufacturers had expanded to produce traffic signals, floodlights, searchlights and airport lighting…. In 1981, Cooper Industries purchased Crouse-Hinds and all their worldwide subsidiaries. In the spring of 2012, it was announced that Eaton Corporation had bought Cooper Industries, renaming the company Eaton Crouse-Hinds Business. `` (information tirée de http://www.cnyhistory.org/2017/01/crouse-hinds/)
