Display of incandescent lamp sockets
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Edison Electric Light Company
label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
label: maker
content: Weston Electric Light Co.
label: maker
content: Bergmann & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A set of five incandescent lamp sockets labeled as follows: "Edison Screw / Lamp Socket - 1881", Weston Fire-Proof / Lamp Socket - 1884", "Westinghouse Bayonet Lamp Sockets / - 1888 - ", Bergmann / Lamp Socket - 1888."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Descriptions:
label: Description (Brief)
content: .01: A keyed Edison socket with brass medium-screw shell and contact, brass housing, wooden insulating ring, hard rubber key and contact insulator, threaded socket for pole mount, no extant maker's marks. This is probably made by Bergmann for the Edison system, and may date from around 1885 or so (1881 is a bit early for this style).
label: Description (Brief)
content: .02: A keyed Weston socket with brass shell and contact, brass housing, hard rubber key and contact insulator, threaded socket for pole mount. Lamp inserts into the shell, friction fit. Stamped on side: "Patented Nov.28,1882 / Mar.20'83 & May 15.'83"
label: Description (Brief)
content: .03: A keyed Westinghouse socket with brass shell and contact, brass housing, ceramic contact insulator, hard rubber key, threaded socket for pole mount, no extant maker's marks. Lamp inserts into the shell, friction fit.
label: Description (Brief)
content: .04: A keyless Westinghouse socket with brass shell and contact, brass housing, mica contact insulator, surface mount, no extant maker's marks. Lamp inserts into the shell, friction fit.
label: Description (Brief)
content: .05: A keyed Edison socket with brass medium-screw shell and contact, brass housing, wooden contact insulator, metal fan-design key, surface mount. Stamped on side: "Manufactured By / Bergmann & Co. N.Y. / Patented / Dec.27.1881 / May.2.1882 / Jan.10.1883 / Feb.12.1884 / May.18.1884 / Jan.20.1885 / Sep.11.1888".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318300
label: catalog number
content: 318300
label: accession number
content: 232729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket, Set of
label: Object Name
content: lamp sockets
label: Other Terms
content: Socket, Set of; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: .01: 2 3/8 in x 2 in x 3 in; 6.0325 cm x 5.08 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: .02: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 3.175 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: .03: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 3.175 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: .04: 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: .05: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 11/16 in; 6.35 cm x 5.715 cm x 6.858 cm
label: Measurements
content: display: 5 1/4 in x 14 1/4 in x 4 in; 13.335 cm x 36.195 cm x 10.16 cm