Sylvania fluorescent Christmas light string
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1946
label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: String of seven fluorescent Christmas lamps with tac-on type plug. Cord-set may or may not be original, two conductors (one green, one red) with white plastic sockets. Lamp characteristics: Brass candelabra screw-base with glass insulator, plastic skirt. Two electrodes inside lamp, gas fill (argon?), wire resistance in stem. Tipless G-shape envelope with phosphor coating on inner bulb-wall. Colors: two coral, two orchid, one blue, two green. Lamps operate via a coronal discharge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Barbara Murray
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0044.02
label: accession number
content: 2008.0044
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0044.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fluorescent lamp
label: Object Name
content: decorative lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 4 1/2 in x 144 in; 5.08 cm x 11.43 cm x 365.76 cm