Maxim Lamp Socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
name: label: maker
content: Maxim, Hiram S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Probably made for Maxim by Charles Perkins (compare to key on catalog #320747). No shell. Round nut missing from back of the key housing. Brass and red fiber sockets with four spring prongs to hold the neck of a Maxim lamp, and two spring aprons to contact the lead-in wires of the lamp which was folded against the outside of the lamp neck. Brass key, one terminal post, and a blind threaded socket to fit a gas or other post fixture. From old record book: "brass and red fiber key sockets, spring clips and contacts." Donor reported they were removed from the original installation by his father, late 19th century electrician Edwin L. Poole, and replaced with "modern ones."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Donald F. Poole
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.310532.01
label: catalog number
content: 310532.01
label: accession number
content: 121545
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 in x 2 in; 6.35 cm x 2.54 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: socket with switch: 6 cm x 5.3 cm; 2 3/8 in x 2 1/16 in