Weston keyed lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
name: label: maker
content: Weston Electric Light Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A keyed socket for a Weston-based incandescent lamp. Brass shell, hard rubber key, threaded post connector with set screw. Two cloth-insulated copper lead wires are inside the post connector. No extant maker's marks. A copper coil with three turns is loosely looped around the socket, purpose unknown.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318715
label: catalog number
content: 318715
label: accession number
content: 232729
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: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 2 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 3.175 cm x 5.3975 cm