dimming lamp socket adapter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Unmarked dimming lamp socket. Similar to Wirt Dim-A-Lite 320742.03. Black coated steel shell with brass medium-screw socket and porcelain insulator. Bolted contact, mica insulator inside. Slide mechanism external with two pull strings wrapped around back of shell. Colored bead finial on one string, other string is broken and the finial is missing.
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.241402.156
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.156
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket with Dimmer
label: Object Name
content: lamp dimmer
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Dimmer; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: socket with dimmer: 2 3/4 in x 2 in x 1 3/4 in; 6.985 cm x 5.08 cm x 4.445 cm