Swan keyless lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Swan keyless lamp socket, about 1881. Swan hook & loop base with two knurled contacts, brass tensioning spring, threaded cone connector. Wood body, lamp held in place by wire spring contacts. Screw-pin socket mount. 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.241402.117
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: socket: 1 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 3.4925 cm x 2.2225 cm