Fixture for Edison light bulb
date: label: Date made
content: 1881
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Donor reported: "Fixture and lamp socket, with covered tin shade, used by engravers to concentrate the light on a small space. This fixture and shade excited great interest at the time as it was apparently the first shade that any one had ever seen which covered the top of the lamp or light without ventilation. Double swing gas pipe brackets with rough tin shades - one extra shade." A converted gas fixture with a keyless Edison socket for a Johnson bevel-ring incandescent lamp. Used in the Hinds-Ketchum printing plant as part of the first commercial installation of the Edison lighting system.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
label: Exhibition
content: Lighting a Revolution
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Joseph E. Hinds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.180939
label: catalog number
content: 180939
label: accession number
content: 24315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: luminaire
label: Other Terms
content: lighting; luminaire; Lighting Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 5 in x 15 in; 60.96 cm x 12.7 cm x 38.1 cm