Sunbeam carbon lamp with Perkins keyed socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Sunbeam
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sunbeam carbon lamp. Brass medium Thomson-Houston base with porcelain insulator. Double-arch carbon filament with 1” center support, carbon paste connectors, 2-piece leads, no insulator. Tipped, S-shaped envelope. Lamp installed in a Perkins Thomson-Houston keyed, surface-mount socket, porcelain base with brass shell, bakelite key. On lamp: illegible mark on label fragment, “Sunbeam Incandescent Lamp Co.” printed on patent label in stem. On socket: stamped on shell: “Pat.June 18-[18]99 250V 50CP”, molded on base: “99-2.”, molded on key: “Perkins”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from C. T. Borchelt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0200.01
label: accession number
content: 2012.0200
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0200.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: lamp: 5 in x 2 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: socket: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 5.715 cm x 6.6675 cm