Swan hook & loop lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wooden base with brass fittings, threaded post. Two contact hooks are mounted in the base, each wired to a connecting post on the side of the socket. Early Swan lamps featured two small loops on the bottom that connected to the hooks. A brass compression spring holds tension on the lamp, maintaining electrical contact. No extant makers marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.241402.121
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.121
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1 in; 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.54 cm