A) 1910 flywheel motor works from a D cell (gone)

[nickademuss42]

I just found one of these for 15 bucks, it still runs but needs restored. Thanks for sharing the patent number, I like having a 100 year old electric motor.

[seanflannes]

where did you get that ? it looks like fun

[RODALCO2007]

That is awesome !!

[jdflyback]

mine runs on 30 volts and it doesn't run as good as that thing that runs on 1.5.

[MucusFelidae]

Efficiency of that motor is not that bad, actually it is quite good, the frictional losses are minimal, what remains is ohmic loss in the coils which is unavoidable, and magnetic losses in the solenoid iron core which can be optimized by design.

[stears555]

Hahaha Ányos JEdlik invented the electric motor in 1827, However he invented a direct rotating engine without any pistons and arms :))))

[InquietudEterna]

That's elegance!

[MrPapaMichael]

I have a crude antique toy motor that looks like this one only more of a toy maybe. Do you have any place to look up my old motor. It has no markings, just someones name on the bottom with a faint 1921 in pencil. I hooked it up to a 9 volt battery and it runs quite well.

[TheRebelman95]

how does the arm control rpm?

[TestECull]

It's the world's most inefficient electric motor!!!

I must have one. It's so cool.

[MrGameboy1989]

awsome

[Abrec66]

that's just charming! congratulations! if you put one magnet on the shaft and another one in the solenoid core so that they repell each other it would be overunity motor! Like this one watch?v=O4F7sGJYoSE&p=F6E6EF15­F3FCFF22 With your skills why not try?

Best!

[zer0dahero]

The arm controls the RPMs? If thats the case, thats the ingenious part. Very nice.

[pandolin1]

@zer0dahero and others: yes, guys: that flexible wishbone which the lever-arm adjusts, determines the speed and direction of rotation. It is much like a steam engine in the sense that the contact-time, or dwell, of either half of the brush, is much like the steam engine's steam-admission time-per-stroke. That was Avery's innovation. The motor is adjusted by the operator very much the way a steam engine's "hookup" is adjustable. It makes the toy motor much more fun to play with, imo.

[CoolHatMan100]

Now that is a toy! All we have these days is plastic toys that have no point, or kids just sit in the dark and play x box all day! Good video, bravo.

[tigrius]

Avery Tractors have this device!

[ronmann606]

thats crazy an electric engine with a combustion engine design

[panzarw]

i dont know for sure but i think Tesla was the first to make that motor =P

[kirilpm]

Good Job

[pedekiller]

thats cool. i want one!

[Rustaholic777]

@pedekiller

I HAVE one.

Mine is a bit different and it is from 1908.

You can see it in a repro 1908 Sears Robuck catalog and it is called a

Toy Electric Engine

[pandolin1]

Thanks to everyone for the many views and for the kind words and votes.

[caganb]

Kids didn't have much fun back then

[staver76]

That is great.

[WildGhorgh]

at least you could make noisy vibrator. lol

[GayBoyRunning]

Thats pretty good i like the idea good work !!

[dokontra]

What a beauty

[TimpBizkit]

I guess you could make an electric V8 using solenoids for pistons. I'm not sure of the efficiency compared to a normal motor though

[BadAndUgly]

It qould be a nice piece to look at, but efficiency would be low compared to size and power consumption, could maybe be increased by using permanent magnet as plungers.

[blasius50]

è bellissimo  complimenti

[harlerrocker]

wow nice job

[Rufftyroff]

How does the energy particles move the wheel? Does the particles convert itself into a force? I'm not much of a science person. These questions pop up in my mind as I was watching this video.

[jmr1068204]

There's a battery seen in the video, connected to it.

[Rufftyroff]

I know there's a battery connected to it, but I still don't understand how the energy from the battery move those pistons back and forth. And my questions above is still unanswered.

[budsiskos]

it uses an electromagnet to move a metal piston

[Rufftyroff]

Ah yes. Thanks, that seem to give me some understanding of this motor.

[ampdavolts]

Yes, it works and even reverses by simply altering the phase angle of magnetic contact closure: reverse the wishbone-spring's contact, and the motor runs in reverse...sort of like reversing polarity of the battery would do, but here the reversal is done by mechanical change of the contact, from one side of the crank-contact throw, to the other side.

hth,

Reid

[Rufftyroff]

Thanks for the info.

[MrBshit225]

They are electric magnets.

[walikai]

nice, good design

[PatrikMacGoohan]

Why do the pistons move in and out? How is the battery getting them to move?

[Oldmodels]

These motors were made by the Manhattan Electric Supply Company and there were three sizes. More info can be found under Mesco toy electric motors.

A Variation of this motor, the Rocking Engine, is made by the Old Model Company.