Set of bamboo splints, unprocessed incandescent lamp filaments
date: label: date made
content: 1880
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
label: maker
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A set of bamboo samples to be tested for potential use as lamp filaments. These were preserved by William Hammer, one of Edison's associates at the Menlo Park lab.
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
label: Exhibition
content: Lighting a Revolution
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
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.320509
label: catalog number
content: 320509
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bamboo Splints
label: Object Name
content: lamp filaments
label: Other Terms
content: Bamboo Splints; Lighting Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tied together with string (bundles (5) connector/connecting technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (wrapping material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 1 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 3.81 cm