Fluorescent lamp demonstration fixture
date: label: date made
content: ca 1938
name: label: maker
content: General Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This fixture was part of a sales demonstration kit for early fluorescent lamps. The unit has a metal case that’s open on two sides and includes a ballast, two fluorescent lamp-holders, two Lumiline lamp-holders, a toggle switch and a ten-foot power cord. The power cord is not original and has been spliced onto the unit. Linear incandescent lamps called Lumiline were popular in the 1930s. Their end-caps consisted of a flat disc that snapped into the holder. GE engineers designed two types of fluorescent lamps with that style connector so as to save money by using existing production equipment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Electric Lamps
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Lighting Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0231.19
label: accession number
content: 1998.0231
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0231.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: demonstration kit
label: Object Name
content: lamp ballast
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 3 1/4 in x 20 in; 10.16 cm x 8.255 cm x 50.8 cm