General Electric Tungsten Records
name: label: Creator
content: General Electric Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Metals
label: Topic
content: Tungsten
label: Topic
content: Wire
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated to the Archives Center by General Electric Company, Tungsten Products Plant, through Timothy Trocco in 2017.
creator: label: Creator
content: General Electric Company
setName: label: See more items in
content: General Electric Tungsten Records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection contains records relating to General Electric's lamp manufacturing activities in its Lamp Wire and Phosphors Department in Cleveland.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: General Electric was founded in 1892 by the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company. Lighting was one of the first concentrations of the company.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1440
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lectures
label: Type
content: Papers, technical
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Reports
label: Type
content: Statistics
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into three series.

Series 1: Reports, 1918-1939

Series 2: Exhibit Boards about Tungsten, undated 

Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1912-1967
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection procesed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2021.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lectures -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Papers, technical
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Statistics -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains records relating to General Electric's lamp manufacturing activities in its Lamp Wire and Phosphors Department in Cleveland. It contains internal company procedural instructions, reports, statistics, property records, property inventory, one photograph of a tungsten mine, appraisals of company property, lab reports and technical papers on metals used in products, and clippings.