Jaap Scherphuis | A steam engine revolution counter @jaapsch2 | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 minutes ago.
This antique revolution counter was very likely used with a steam engine, and probably made in Germany in the 1880s or 1890s. It has an unusual eccentric gear mechanism to drive the units wheel, and is one of the first counters to use the carry mechanism that is in use in almost all odometers made today.
Further research leads me to believe that this counter was made by Schäffer & Budenberg in Buckau.
For more information on this and the mechanical calculators in my collection, please visit my website:
jaapsch.net/mechcalc
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Carry mechanism
1:12 Eccentric gear drive
1:57 Reset mechanism
2:23 History - Eduard Stalmann, Buckau
3:46 Outro
This antique revolution counter was very likely used with a steam engine, and probably made in Germany in the 1880s or 1890s. It has an unusual eccentric gear mechanism to drive the units wheel, and is one of the first counters to use the carry mechanism that is in use in almost all odometers made today.
Further research leads me to believe that this counter was made by Schäffer & Budenberg in Buckau.
For more information on this and the mechanical calculators in my collection, please visit my website:
jaapsch.net/mechcalc
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Carry mechanism
1:12 Eccentric gear drive
1:57 Reset mechanism
2:23 History - Eduard Stalmann, Buckau
3:46 Outro
