Edison Carbon Light Bulb
date: label: date made
content: ca 1884
name: label: maker
content: Edison Electric Light Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison carbon lamp, ca.1884. Brass medium-screw base with plaster-dome insulator. Single-arch bamboo filament with copper-plated connectors, 3-piece leads, cork insulator. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped envelope.
label: Description (Brief)
content: “Placed: 1/4 L-7-1 L-312-4” [first location crossed thru, both are handwritten]. Typewritten: “Edison lamp with screw base. Gift of Mrs. Russell [Hilda P.] Munroe 2300 Forest Glen Road Silver Spring, Maryland / Edison lamp, with horseshoe-shaped filament, screw-base, patent label 27 December, 1881. One connection on bottom of base and one on threaded collar. (Four samples)” [Then handwritten:] “(2) This and 314,908-11 identified by donor as “first electric lamps and fixtures from grandfather Barlar’s (9c B.B.?) house, 3909 Lorest, Phila. / 4 samples-2 missing 462 [April 1962; initials] Two broken bases have been found.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hilda P. Munroe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.314907
label: catalog number
content: 314907
label: accession number
content: 212171
label: accession number
content: 269421
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Object Type
content: Lighting Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 15/16 in x 2 3/16 in