General Electric "Edison" carbon lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
label: date made
content: ca. 1905
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Brass medium-screw base with glass insulator. Double-arch cellulose filament with center support, carbon paste connectors, 2-piece leads, cotton insulator. Tipped straight-sided envelope. Label on lamp reads: "16c Edison 121". "l6" inked on press, "121-v" in base, "L" on stem. Patent label in stem reads: "[GE logo watermarked in red] The manufacturer of this lamp is licensed under patents noted on other side". The following are visible: "Mar-20-94 516,800 APR-16-95 537,493 APR-16-95 537,693 APR-28-03 726,293 and others N.P.5036".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.320461.01
label: catalog number
content: 320461.01
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: EM*32046
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: carbon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 13.0175 cm x 6.35 cm