Reproduction Edison lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1959
label: date made
content: ca 1959
label: associated date
content: 1959
name: label: associated person
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A reproduction of an 1879 experimental Edison lamp. Wooden experimental base with two brass & plastic binding posts, green felt on bottom, thin collar-ring. Triple-arch carbon filament with dumet leads, carbon paste connectors, exhaust tube in stem. Fake-tip G-shaped envelope with neck. “C582 47” inked on stem. Donor’s card reads: “Replica of Edison’s original filamentary lamp, made by the General Electric Company in 1959 in the Nela Park Laboratories, Cleveland 12, Ohio.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Paul G. Watson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.325072
label: catalog number
content: 325072
label: accession number
content: 252994
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Other Terms
content: Light Bulb; Lighting Devices
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 4 in; 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm