Wirt "Dim-A-Lite" pull-cord dimming socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1907
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wirt "Dim-A-Lite" lamp socket adapter, c 1909. Brass medium-screw base with porcelain insulator. Medium-screw socket with bolted contact, mica insulator. Two arm slide mechanism rotates around exterior shell (chains, strings, and tassels are missing), central support on the shell, shade holder build into shell. One holder screw is missing. Marked: "Wirt Company / Pat. Appl'd For / Dimming Socket / Phila.PA.U.S.A. / 40W. 110V. / Made in U.S.A."
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.320742.01
label: catalog number
content: 320742.01
label: accession number
content: 241402
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp dimmer
label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 2 3/4 in; 7.62 cm x 6.985 cm