Edison keyed medium-screw base socket
date: label: date made
content: 1882
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Edison keyed socket for plaster-collar lamp, 1882. A brass housing with wooden shell insulator, fiber board contact insulator, threaded post connector. No extant maker's markings. See also catalog #180935.02, Edison incandescent lamp that came with this socket.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Joseph E. Hinds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.180935.03
label: catalog number
content: 180935.03
label: accession number
content: 24315
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Socket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 2 in x 2 3/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 5.08 cm x 6.985 cm