Van Choate carbon filament lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Brass base shell with flange, plaster insulator. Single-arch carbon filament with two-piece leads, 1/2" long carbon-paste connectors, glass goal-post style press with black-glass insulator. Tipped, tubular envelope. Remnants of copper wires soldered to base-leads.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Tufts University thru Profs. Alvin H. Howell & Julian K. Knipp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.328064
label: catalog number
content: 328064
label: accession number
content: 270107
label: collector/donor number
content: 59
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Other Terms
content: Light Bulb; Lighting Devices; Horseshoe; Carbon
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 3 in; 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm