NOMA model 3425 25-light decorative light set
date: label: Date made
content: about 1932
name: label: maker
content: NOMA
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: NOMA model 3425 25-light holiday lighting set, about 1932. Lamps: brass candelabra base with glass insulator, tungsten filament, tipless C-shaped envelope with sprayed coating. The multi-color set includes the following marked lamps: "GE Mazda" (8), "GE" (10), "Westinghouse Mazda" (3), "Westinghouse" (1), "Japan" (1), "USA" (2).
label: Description (Brief)
content: Printed on box: top: "[logo] The Spirit of Festivity" and "Decorative Lighting Products by NOMA"; sides: "Decorative Lighting Products by NOMA"; right end: "printed in U.S.A."; left end: "Candelabra Base 120 Volts Cat. No. 3425 Mfd. by Noma Electric Corporation New York, N.Y." and "NOMA 25-light multiple outfit with Mazda lamps for indoor decoration - each lamp burns independently". Tag on light set: "Made in U.S.A. For indoor use only Pat. No. 1611836 Noma Electric Corp. New York, N.Y." and "Xmas & Decorative Lighting Unit 120 Volts [UL logo] Listed under reexamination service of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. String No. P". In box: "Directions - for indoor use only. Do not connect more than 50 similar sockets together in one continuous length. Always disconnect current when changing lamps and replace fibre washers when replacing lamps. 120 Volts." and "This set can be connected to all other types of sets."
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Noma "Spirit" logo seems to have been discontinued at some point during the 1930s, the Mazda tradename was discontinued in 1949. US Patent #1611836, "Christmas Tree Lighting Outfit," issued 21 December 1926 to Eugene R. Kulka, and refers to the wooden bead on the cord that secures each socket to a tree branch. This red bead reportedly acquired the name "Berry Bead".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0053.10
label: accession number
content: 2004.0053
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0053.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: decorative lights
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 42 cm x 33 cm; 13/16 in x 16 9/16 in x 13 in