Edison bamboo filament incandescent lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1886
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison bamboo filament incandescent lamp, ca. 1886. Characteristics: Plaster base and collar with brass medium-screw shell and contact. Single-arch bamboo filament with carbon paste connectors, two-piece leads, cork insulator. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped envelope. "112" on base, catalog number on envelope and on a tag with "No.13.8"(?).
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
label: Exhibition
content: Lighting a Revolution
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181804
label: catalog number
content: 181804
label: accession number
content: 33407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: carbon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm