General Electric Push-Button Wall Switch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: Maker
content: General Electric Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: GE push-button wall switch, about 1920. Single-pole, single-throw front-wired. Bakelite body and buttons, steel yoke, copper contacts, brass screws. Threaded plate-mounting holes and brake-off ears on yoke. Stamped: "Und. Lab. / Insp", "Made in / U.S.A.", "10A / 125 V. T.", "G.E.Co. / U.S.A.", "5A.250V." GE logo molded on one button (push this to turn the switch off), white inset on the other (push this to turn the switch on).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Scott J. Cornelius Sr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3042.01
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3042.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3042
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Switch
label: Object Name
content: electrical switch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bakelite (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 4.2545 cm x 4.445 cm