keyed lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1888
name: label: maker
content: Thomson-Houston Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Thomson-Houston keyed socket for Thomson-Houston based incandescent lamp. Brass shell with ceramic contact insulator, hard rubber key, threaded post connector. 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 International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.241402.119
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket W/Switch
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket W/Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 3.81 cm x 5.3975 cm