Edison Bamboo Filament Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1882
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison bamboo filament incandescent lamp, ca. 1882. Original specimen as installed in the primary establishment of Hinds, Ketcham & Co., New York, in January, 1881. Has improved socket and key; the wires of the lamps are connected to a cap and rim instead of two rims. Characteristics: Plaster base and collar with brass medium-screw shell and contact. Single-arch bamboo filament with copper-clad connectors, three-piece leads, cork insulator. 8 candlepower. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped envelope. This base represents the fifth major style used in the development of the Edison lamp-base. Used in the Hinds-Ketchum printing plant as part of the first commercial installation of the Edison lighting system.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Joseph E. Hinds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.180935.02
label: catalog number
content: 180935.02
label: accession number
content: 24315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bamboo (overall material)