Fluorescent Christmas Lamp
date: label: date made
content: 1946
name: label: maker
content: Sylvania Electric Products Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sylvania Fluorescent Christmas lamp, coral, 1946. Brass candelabra screw-base with glass insulator, plastic skirt. Two electrodes inside lamp, gas fill (neon?), wire resistance in stem. Tipless G-shape envelope with phosphor coating on inner bulb-wall. Printed on skirt: "Sylvania Fluorescent 10 4W-120AC Coral [Sylvania "flashing S" logo] Made in U.S.A." Stamped under neutral-contact solder joint: "...U.[S.A..]..". Note found with lamp reads: "Flashing 'S' c1948 Christmas bulb - appeared in Spotlight Winter '92".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Christmas
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Electric Lamps
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from OSRAM Sylvania Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0224.14
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0224.14
label: accession number
content: 2000.0224
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fluorescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 5 cm; 3 5/32 in x 1 31/32 in