- Title : Baxter's Portable Steam Engine
- Artist: William Baxter Designer Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., Manufacturer
- Accession: 1992.2.2
- Country: United States Hartford Connecticut
- Date: circa 1885
- Dimensions: Inches 63-1/2 38 35, Centimeters 161.3 96.5 88.9
- Collection: Object
- Category: Industrial Design
- Subject: Machines , Technology , Industrial Design
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of Finlay Matheson
- URL: 1992.2.2.JPG
- Tags: Industrial Design
Description:
Portable steam engine; inverted engine cylinder built into top of a vertical cast-iron boiler, broiler lacquered black; fire box at the center of the boiler is accessed through door at lower front, ash box door is accessed through smaller door just below; smoke pipe for exhaust attached at top rear; gold-plated temperature and pressure controls, wooden handles, arranged around upper body of boiler; engine, lacquered red, mounted on top of the boiler; arched vertical bars support gold-plated piston; to side of piston, within circumference of boiler, are band and fly wheels, each lacquered dark maroon with bright red accents outlined in black.