Experimental Mercury Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: General Electric Lighting Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Experimental tungsten lamp with mercury pool. This lamp’s purpose is unclear but it appears similar early sunlamps.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Electric Lamps
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from General Electric Lighting Company, thru Terry K. McGowan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0388.62
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0388.62
label: accession number
content: 1997.0388
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 1 5/8 in; 12.7 cm x 4.1275 cm