General Electric surface-mounted lamp socket
date: label: Date made
content: 1895
label: date made
content: 1894
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: General Electric keyed socket for medium-screw based incandescent lamp. Brass shell with plastic shell insulator, porcelain contact mount, mica insulating sheet in socket, plastic key molded "G.E. Co.", porcelain surface-mount base. Stamped on shell: “Edison Patents". Molded on base: "Cat # / 66299", handwritten: "200 440".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.181691
label: catalog number
content: 181691
label: accession number
content: 33184
label: maker number
content: 9368
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Socket with Switch
label: Object Name
content: lamp socket
label: Other Terms
content: Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 7/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 4.7625 cm x 6.0325 cm