GE "Mazda C" incandescent lamp with two barnacles attached
date: label: date made
content: ca 1934
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A brass medium screw base with glass insulator. C-? tungsten filament with crimp connectors, angled dumet leads, 6 supports, fiber insulator. A21 shaped envelope. Marked on top: “Mazda / [GE logo] / 50W 120V”. Dubbed “Barnacle Bill,” this incandescent lamp with two barnacles attached was recovered from the motorship Polar Bear when the vessel was raised after 3 years on the ocean floor off the coast of Alaska. Reference: GE Review 41, (September 1938): page 422.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of GE Lighting, A Savant Company, through Gerald Duffy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0016.01
label: accession number
content: 2023.0016
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0016.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 2 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 6.35 cm