Incandescent lamp socket adapter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Lamp socket adapter, ca 1890. Brass Thomson-Houston base with hard rubber insulator, rubber grip-ring. Allows medium-screw based lamp to be used in a Thomson-Houston socket. Can also be used as a socket extender. Edison screw socket with central threaded insert at bottom, and also has an Edison screw base just below the grip ring. No extant maker's marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from W. W. Stuart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.311546.02
label: catalog number
content: 311546.02
label: accession number
content: 149123
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
label: Object Name
content: socket adapter
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket adapter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 3.175 cm