Linear Incandescent Lamp
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: Maker
content: General Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: GE incandescent Lumiline lamp, clear, dated 1934. Characteristics: Double-ended with steel disc-bases (early style). C-8 tungsten filament, with 8 glass-bead insulated support-hooks attached to a spine paralleling the filament. Center support attached to spine at lamp mid-point. Spine is crimp-connected to lead on one end, other end has a glass-bead insulator connecting to lead. Filament is crimp-connected to a support hook / lead prior to this insulator. Tubular envelope. Clear Lumilines were often used in cove lighting for decorative accents as late as the 1990s.
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
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: 1997.0388.51
label: accession number
content: 1997.0388
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0388.51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 1 in; 45.72 cm x 2.54 cm