General Electric keyed lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: General Electric keyed socket for medium-screw based incandescent lamp. Brass shell with paper shell insulator, porcelain contact mount, mica insulating sheet in socket, plastic key molded "G.E. Co.", threaded post connector. Stamped on shell: “50 C.P. 250 Volts / General Electric Co."
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.241402.091
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.091
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 3.81 cm x 5.715 cm