Carbon filament lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: associated person
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Commercial carbon filament lamp, circa 1900. Brass medium-screw base with retainer, porcelain insulator. Double-arch carbon filament with 1” center support, carbon-paste connectors. Tipped, straight-sided envelope. “10-29728” inked on base insulator. Donor’s card reads: “Two-loop carbon filament lamp, squirted filament type, dates from after 1895.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325076
label: catalog number
content: 325076
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Other Terms
content: Light Bulb; Lighting Devices; Double Loop; Carbon
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 12.065 cm x 6.0325 cm