Demonstration "Mazda F" sales kit
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: General Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This set of six fluorescent lamps in a lined, cloth wrap was part of a demonstration kit that General Electric sales people used to introduce the new product. When originally introduced, fluorescent lamps came in assorted colors and four sizes. The pockets in this wrap held nine lamps of 1-inch diameter and three 1.25-inch diameter. The lamps in this wrap include red, gold, two greens and two shades of white. One of the green lamps is not original to the wrap since it lacks the Mazda trade name.
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 Company, thru Terry K. McGowan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0388.32
label: accession number
content: 1997.0388
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0388.32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sales kit
label: Object Name
content: discharge lamp
label: Object Name
content: fluorescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: arsnic (red lamp) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tungsten (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: kit overall: 21 1/2 in x 32 in x 1 1/8 in; 54.61 cm x 81.28 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: each lamp: 18 in x 1 in; 45.72 cm x 2.54 cm