Mather keyed lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
name: label: maker
content: Mather Electric Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mather keyed socket for an incandescent lamp. Brass shell with wood key, threaded post connector, cloth-insulated lead wire stubs inside connector. Four key-slots are spaced around the top to accept pins in the side of a Mather lamp, two contacts press against base contacts. See lamp catalog #334450.
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.320754
label: catalog number
content: 320754
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 4.1275 cm x 3.81 cm