Edison bamboo filament lamp
date: label: date made
content: 1882
name: label: maker
content: Edison Electric Light Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison bamboo filament incandescent lamp, ca. 1882. Characteristics: Plaster base with collar and brass medium-screw shell and contact. Single-arch bamboo filament with copper-clad connectors, three-piece leads, cork insulator. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped glass envelope. 16cp lamp. This base represents the fifth major style used in the development of the Edison lamp-base.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318656
label: catalog number
content: 318656
label: accession number
content: 232729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Other Terms
content: Light Bulb; Lighting Devices; Edison; Horseshoe; Carbon
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: light bulb: 14.7 cm x 5.3 cm; 5 25/32 in x 2 3/32 in