General Electric Edison Mazda B with Fake Tip
date: label: Date made
content: c1920
label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: GE Edison Mazda B with Fake Tip. Lamp made in response to consumer concern about the elimination of the exhaust tip from the top of incandescent lamps by GE in 1920. Characteristics: Brass medium-screw base with glass insulator. Drawn tungsten filament with molybdenum supports hooks (5 upped, 4 lower), angled dumet leads, crimp connectors, exhaust tube in stem. Fake-tip straight-sided envelope with taper at neck. Lamp purchased by donor at an antique show in 1996
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0030.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0030.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 13.0175 cm x 6.35 cm