Incandescent Blackout Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
name: label: maker
content: Wabash Appliance Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An incandescent lamp made to provide a minimum level of lighting for safety inside homes during air-raid alerts. Red light is emitted from the top, although lamp envelope gets very hot. Characteristics: Brass medium-screw base with glass insulator. Tungsten filament (intact). BT-style envelope with black coating around sides, and red coating on top. Note overspray around base-collar. Lamp purchased by donor at a Shrewsbury, PA antique shop in 1997. Printed on label: "Wabash / Blackout Bulb / For Blackout Lighting / Mf'd. By / Wabash Appliance Corp. / * Brooklyn, N.Y. / Patent Pending".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Electric Lamps
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0030.02
label: accession number
content: 2003.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0030.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 5.3975 cm