Edison Wooden-Mogul Keyless Lamp Socket
date: label: date made
content: 1880
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison wooden-mogul keyless socket, 1880. Wooden shell with three brass contacts, inner screw shell missing, brass cap threaded for mounting on pipe nipple. Original specimen as installed in the primary establishment of Hinds, Ketcham & Co., New York, in January, 1881. 55 volt rating.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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.180931.02
label: catalog number
content: 180931.02
label: accession number
content: 24315
label: collector/donor number
content: 2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 5.715 cm x 6.0325 cm