Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: Goose-neck table lamp with a “50W...250v / Pat No D96558” inscription. This belonged to Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), the cytogeneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
label: Description
content: Ref: Louis Ludwig, “Design for an Electric Lamp Base,” U.S. Design Patent 96,558 (Aug. 13, 1935).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Peter M. McKinley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0074.07
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0074.07
label: accession number
content: 1993.0074
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Goose Neck Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: insulated wire (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 40.6 cm x 12.7 cm x 16.5 cm; 16 in x 5 in x 6 1/2 in