Westinghouse switched lamp socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1895
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Switched socket for Westinghouse lamp, no shell, a tab on the outer end of the switch armature is broken and missing. The method of actuating the switch is unclear. This does not appear to be a turn-key or push-thru switch, and there is no connecting point for a pull chain.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from the United States Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN80762U39
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: socket with switch: 2 in x 1 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 3.4925 cm