Carbon "Stopper" Lamp with Adapter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1894
name: label: Maker
content: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Westinghouse made stopper lamps to avoid infringing Edison's patents. The lamp is based on Sawyer-Man patents and includes a removable adapter to allow use of the lamp in both the special sockets made for stopper lamps and standard Westinghouse sockets.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Electric Lamps
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Lighting Company, thru Terry K. McGowan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0388.81
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0388.81
label: accession number
content: 1997.0388
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 16.51 cm x 6.6675 cm