Carbon Filament Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1891
name: label: maker
content: Edison General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This is an Edison carbon lamp with Thomson-Houston base and asphalt-coated filament that was developed around 1891. The lamp's base differed depending on the manufacturer of the lamp. Edison, Westinghouse, Thomson-Houston and other makers devised differing ways to attach a lamp to a fixture. Companies quickly began making adapters or, as in this case, making their own lamps with competitors’ bases.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Electric Lamps
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content: American Stories exhibit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Lighting Company, thru Terry K. McGowan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0388.57
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0388.57
label: accession number
content: 1997.0388
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (envelope material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (base shell material)
label: Physical Description
content: carbon (filament material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 13.97 cm x 6.0325 cm