General Electric 59G37 transformer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A current transformer for powering high-output mercury vapor lamps. Nameplate reads in part: "General [logo] Electric / Transformer For H-6 1000W [mercury] capillary lamp / Cat. 59 G 37 / Cy 60 / ... / Ft. Wayne, Indiana." The H6 mercury lamp was introduced in 1939 and produced thru most of the 1940s. A small tubular lamp (about the size of a cigarette) the unit operated within a water-cooled jacket. By the early 1950s, it had been replaced with updated lamps that did not need to elaborate cooling system.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.321434
label: catalog number
content: 321434
label: accession number
content: 243904
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Transformer
label: Object Name
content: discharge lamp auxiliary
label: Object Name
content: transformer
label: Other Terms
content: Transformer; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 9 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 24.13 cm x 16.51 cm