Edison bamboo filament lamp
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1881
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison bamboo filament incandescent lamp, ca. 1881. 8cp, 55v Description: "Original specimen as installed in the primary establishment of Hinds, Ketcham & Co., New York, in January, 1881. The lamp has German silver clamps with a screw or rivet holding the ends of the filament. The wooden base of the lamp with its brass connections and screws fits into a brass lined wooden socket which is keyless." Characteristics: wooden-mogul base with brass screw-shell and contact-ring. Single-arch bamboo filament with nickel(?) clamp connectors, two-piece leads, cork insulator. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped envelope. This base represents the third major style used in the development of the Edison lamp-base.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Joseph E. Hinds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.180931.01
label: catalog number
content: 180931.01
label: accession number
content: 24315
label: catalog number
content: 180931
label: accession number
content: 24315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Object Type
content: Lighting Devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bamboo (overall material)