Display sample, Edison battery
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Thomas A. Edison Incorporated
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Display sample, Edison alkali battery. Chrome-plated Edison battery with front and right side of casing cutaway to show inner structure. Bottom plate is removable. One battery terminal has a faded red octagonal nut, the other has a black octagonal nut. Nine plates inside unit (5 flat negatives, 4 round positives). Printed on cap: “Thomas A. Edison, Inc. / West Orange N.J. / Edison / [signature] / Made in / United States of America”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Charles A. Ahto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0279.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0279
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0279.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: battery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 in; 20.955 cm x 6.985 cm x 5.08 cm