B. E. Co. Thomson-Houston base lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: B.E. Company keyless surface-mounted lamp socket. Porcelain body, Thomson-Houston socket, cut copper wire stubs in each contact.. Molded on bottom: "B.E.Co. / 15 N." Donor reported: "This particular model was last used at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin up to about 1920 when the electric light plant there...was modernized."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Charles R. Schwartz, thru Mrs. Robert W. Essex
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.312883.02
label: catalog number
content: 312883.02
label: accession number
content: 170757
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm