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Re: Knapp Electric & Novelty Co.
« on: July 14, 2019, 12:39:40 am »
After collecting for a number you forget what you have collected.
The company was started in 1895 by David W Knapp in New York
City. Besides making electric motors they made electric automobiles,
board games, fans, machine tools, and other electric items. In 1898
ads appeared showing they were making a Knapp C And D type motors
and had cells batteries made by Gordon Burnham Co. By 1902 they
were making a Kenco Trade Mark No.1 Electric toy Train kit. It had
a trolley car and 9 feet of track and were a 2" gauge which had been
introduced by Marklin in 1891 at the Leipzig Toy Fair.

I want to hook this motor to a steam engine and see how it works.
In the past I had it hooked up to batteries and added 1.5-volt batteries
from 1 to 3 how a light bulb got brighter with more speed.
Carl "There is a better way for everything. Find it."TAE