push-button momentary contact switch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: Tillotson
label: maker
content: Tillotson & Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A push-button type momentary contact switch. Hard rubber casing, two flat contact springs with pointed connector, white push button with spiral return spring. Marked: "Push button firmly once." This button was made by Tillotson & Company, New York. Used by George C. Maynard when installing a set of electric bells in the White House about the time when General Horace Porter served as Secretary to President Grant.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from George C. Maynard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.003542
label: catalog number
content: 003542
label: accession number
content: 8914
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Switch
label: Object Name
content: electrical switch
label: Other Terms
content: Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 4 in; 3.175 cm x 10.16 cm