keyed switch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1881
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A wooden housing with a wooden turn key, brass mechanism, two contact screws on one side. Countersunk screw hole on top, slot cut in one end. No extant markings, key rotates 90 degrees, spring loaded for the off position.
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.241402.172
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.172
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: switch: 2 1/2 in x 1 in x 2 in; 6.35 cm x 2.54 cm x 5.08 cm