Edison Bamboo Filament Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1882
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison bamboo filament incandescent lamp, ca. 1882. Characteristics: Plaster base and collar with brass medium-screw shell and contact. Single-arch bamboo filament with copper-clad connectors, three-piece leads, cork insulator. 8cp. Ball-tipped, pear-shaped envelope. "Edison" stamped on base-collar, "5569" penciled on base. Markings or scratches on base-contact. This base represents the fifth major style used in the development of the Edison lamp-base. Edison lamp, with horseshoe-shaped filament, no patent label. Number 5569 stamped on top of oversize collar. One connection on bottom of base and one on threaded collar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hilda P. Munroe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.314908.01
label: catalog number
content: 314908.01
label: accession number
content: 212171
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Light Bulb
label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bamboo (overall material)