Maxim keyed lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
name: label: maker
content: Maxim, Hiram S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Socket for a Maxim incandescent lamp. Probably made for Maxim by Charles Perkins (compare to key on catalog #320747). No shell. Round nut on back of the key housing. These are brass and red fiber sockets with four spring prongs to hold the necks of the Maxim lamps and two spring aprons to contact the lead-in wires of the lamps which are bent up on the outside of the lamp necks. Sockets have brass keys, one terminal post, and a blind threaded socket to fit a gas or other post fixture. No extant maker's marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.320757.02
label: catalog number
content: 320757.02
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: socket with switch: 6 cm x 5.3 cm; 2 3/8 in x 2 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in x 2 in; 6.35 cm x 2.8575 cm x 5.08 cm