Westinghouse keyed lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1889
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Keyed socket for a Westinghouse based lamp, c 1889. Brass Westinghouse socket with brass retaining leaves, mica contact insulator, no base. Key has a fan design similar but not identical to a Bergmann socket. 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.320738
label: catalog number
content: 320738
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm x 5.715 cm