Shelby carbon lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: Shelby Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Shelby carbon lamp, ca 1905. Brass medium-screw base with glass insulator. Triple-arch carbon filament with carbon paste connectors, two-piece leads, cotton insulator. Tipped mushroom-shaped envelope. Paper label reads: "16C Shelby 110V". "2" on press, illegible marking in base. Patent label in stem reads: "The manufacturer of this lamp is licensed under patents noted on other side". The following are visible: "Mar-20-94 516,800 APR-16-95 537,493 APR-16-95 537,693 APR-28-03 726,293 and others N.P.5036".
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
label: Exhibition
content: Lighting a Revolution
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.318607
label: catalog number
content: 318607
label: accession number
content: 232729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: carbon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 6.35 cm