Metropolitan keyless flush-mounted lamp socket and current tap
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A surface mounted socket for a medium-screw based lamp, white porcelain base, copper shell and contact, brass base contacts (one nickel plated). A brass contact is mounted separately from the lamp contacts, and may have been used as a current tap or connector for a mid-run installation. Molded on bottom: "MET / 660W 250V."
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.241402.143
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.143
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Object Name
content: current tap
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.81 cm x 6.0325 cm