Edison "New Year's Eve" Lamp
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
label: used date
content: 1879-12-31
name: label: user
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
label: maker
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
notes: label: Description
content: Thomas Edison used this carbon-filament bulb in the first public demonstration of his most famous invention, the first practical electric incandescent lamp, which took place at his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory on New Year's Eve, 1879.
label: Description
content: As the quintessential American inventor-hero, Edison personified the ideal of the hardworking self-made man. He received a record 1,093 patents and became a skilled entrepreneur. Though occasionally unsuccessful, Edison and his team developed many practical devices in his "invention factory," and fostered faith in technological progress.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
label: used
content: United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
label: used
content: United States: New Jersey
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
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content: National Treasures exhibit
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181797
label: catalog number
content: 181797
label: accession number
content: 33407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: light bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Other Terms
content: light bulb; Lighting Devices; No Base; Horseshoe; Carbon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: carbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: platinum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 16.51 cm x 6.985 cm