Edison keyed medium-screw base socket

Description (Brief):

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.

Date Made: 1882

Location: Currently not on view

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Credit Line: from Joseph E. Hinds

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: EM.180935.03Catalog Number: 180935.03Accession Number: 24315

Object Name: Lamp Socket

Physical Description: wood (overall material)brass (overall material)Measurements: overall: 2 3/8 in x 2 in x 2 3/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 5.08 cm x 6.985 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-7934-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_996359

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