Integral compact fluorescent lamp
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1986
label: date made
content: ca. 1986
name: label: maker
content: Feit Electric Company
notes: label: Description
content: Between the two World Wars many large lamp makers attempted to control competition in the international electric lamp trade through organizations known as cartels. The demise of the Phoebus cartel after World War 2 resulted in the globalization of the market for electric lamps. The global nature of the market is easily seen by the wide array of compact fluorescent lamps available from manufacturers around the world.
label: Description
content: This lamp was made in Korea for Feit Electric Company of Los Angeles around 1986. The lamp is made as an integral unit and is intended to replace an incandescent lamp. The arc tube is twisted into a spiral so as to give the lamp the long arc path needed for efficiency. A magnetic, coil-core ballast contained in the base housing controls the current passing through the lamp. Coil-core ballasts have been replaced by more efficient electronic ballasts in today's compact fluorescent lamps.
label: Description
content: Lamp characteristics: medium-screw base-shell. The base insulator is part of the plastic skirt that houses a magnetic ballast and a neon-glow starter. A double-arch arc-tube contains two electrodes, a small amount of mercury and is coated with a phosphor. A clear, plastic cover protects the tube. Both the base skirt and the cover have slots for ventilation. Lamp rated at 18 watts. Received in original package.
place: label: place made
content: South Korea
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
label: Exhibition
content: Lighting a Revolution
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Jones, Robert; Marriott, Oliver. Anatomy of a Merger: A History of G.E.C., A.E.I., and English Electric
label: Related Publication
content: Lighting A Revolution exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Philips Lighting Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0389.11
label: accession number
content: 1997.0389
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0389.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fluorescent lamp
label: Object Name
content: discharge lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mercury (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 8.255 cm