Switch
name: label: maker
content: Leviton Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Pair of single-pole, double-throw brass knife switches on black phenolic bases. The “Leviton” inscription on each refers to the Leviton Manufacturing Co., a New York City firm established in 1906 by Isador Leviton (1886-1965), a Jewish immigrant from Kiev.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Isidor Leviton, a Manufacturer of Electrical Devices, Dies at 79,” New York Times (June 10, 1965), p. 35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0365.07
label: accession number
content: 1995.0365
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0365.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Switch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.6 cm x 2.2 cm x 7.7 cm; 1 1/32 in x 7/8 in x 3 1/32 in