Keyed Mather-type lamp sicket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Keyed socket for a Mather incandescent lamp, c. 1885. Brass shell with brass key, threaded post connector. Ten brass leaf-springs are spaced around the top of the removable shell to hold a Mather lamp. No extant maker's marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.320497
label: catalog number
content: 320497
label: accession number
content: 241402
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 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm x 6.0325 cm