Linear Incandescent Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: Maker
content: General Electric
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: GE incandescent Lumiline lamp, white-coated, ca. 1936. Characteristics: Double-ended with steel disc-bases. C-8 tungsten filament, with glass-bead insulated support-hooks attached to a spine paralleling the filament. Spine is crimp-connected to lead on one end, other end has a glass-bead insulator connecting to lead. Filament is crimp-connected to a support hook / lead prior to this insulator. Tubular envelope, coated with a white enamel finish. White Lumilines were replaced by fluorescent lamps for most uses.
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: 1997.0388.52
label: accession number
content: 1997.0388
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0388.52
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 1 in; 30.48 cm x 2.54 cm