Bryant keyed anti-theft lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1908
name: label: maker
content: Bryant Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Bryant keyed socket for a medium-screw based incandescent lamp. Brass shell with plastic key, paper shell insulator, ceramic base, threaded post connector. Spring steel coil set in the screw socket serves as an anti-theft device. A lamp can be inserted normally, but tension on the spring must be released before lamp removal or else the lamp will break. Stamped on shell: "Bryant / 250W. 250V. / Pat. Nov. 26 1907 / Made in U.S.A." and "Press"; on key "Bryant"; on base contact: Bryant shield logo.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.241402.087
label: accession number
content: 241402
label: catalog number
content: 241402.087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 2.5 cm; 8.5725 cm x 3.81 cm x 31/32 in