Else tungsten lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Steel medium-screw base with glass insulator. Coiled tungsten filament in C-9 configuration, 3 support hooks. Crimp connectors, dumet leads. Tipless A-shape envelope. Etched on top of envelope: “Else U.S.A. 120V”. The steel base means that this lamp was produced during World War II. Restrictions on brass supplies meant that lamp makers used steel instead.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the Warshaw Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.293320.2832
label: catalog number
content: 293320.2832
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 6.985 cm