MESCO lamp socket tap with outlet
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
name: label: Maker
content: Manhattan Electric Supply Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A porcelain socket extension with side-mounted current tap and 2-prong plug. Molded on plug-socket: "MESCO". During the early decades of electric incandescent lighting, many installations consisted of only a single lamp socket in a given room. Users would remove the lamp to connect appliances. This object, for a medium-screw base lamp and socket, allowed to user to continue using the lamp while powering an appliance. The Western Union catalog card notes: "Convenience outlet / Porcelain Adopter of about 1912 / F. B. Bramhall" (Bramhall was the donor).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Western Union Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.332974
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: accession number
content: 294351
label: catalog number
content: 332974
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Adapter
label: Object Name
content: current tap
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm x 4.445 cm