Plane for making Edison bamboo filaments
date: label: Date made
content: 1880
name: label: associated user
content: unknown
label: maker
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
label: maker
content: S. R. Wells & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Inventing a new technical device not only involves creating the device itself, but often entails creating special tools to produce the device or the component pieces of the device. Thomas Edison conducted experiments on hundreds of different types of natural fibers in his search for a material that would serve as a light bulb filament. This tool was designed to shave bamboo strips to the correct thickness for use as filaments.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
label: Exhibition
content: Lighting a Revolution
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Vannevar Bush
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.314259
label: catalog number
content: 314259
label: accession number
content: 198085
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tool
label: Object Name
content: filament tool
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 14 in x 9 in; 22.86 cm x 35.56 cm x 22.86 cm