push-button momentary contact switch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A push-button type momentary contact switch from around 1890. Wood casing, metal contacts, ceramic button. Originally part of the William J. Hammer Collection. Hammer worked for Thomas Edison in the 1870s and 1880s and preserved many pieces from the Menlo Park laboratory. The origin of this switch is unknown but it could be from Menlo Park.
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.241402.06
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Switch
label: Object Name
content: electrical switch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.08 cm