Therapeutic Lamp
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Faries Manufacturing Company
label: maker
content: General Electric Company
label: maker
content: Bryant
notes: label: Description
content: Therapeutic lamp with “FARIES / PAT. SEP. 7-20” and “BRYANT” inscriptions. Naomi Degler (grandmother of the donor) used this lamp for "wasting away pains in the back."
label: Description
content: Ref: William E. Surface, “Shade Holder for Electric Light Bulbs,” U.S. Patent 1,351,879 (Sept. 7, 1920), assigned to Faries Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Ill.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harold J. Kepler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0170.1
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0170.1
label: accession number
content: 1999.0170
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hand Lamp, Therapeutic
label: Object Name
content: lamp, therapeutic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (globe material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (socket/switch material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (shade material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37.5 cm x 20 cm x 9 cm; 14 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in x 3 17/32 in