Incandescent Blackout Lamp
Incandescent Blackout Lamp
- Description (Brief)
- An incandescent lamp made to provide a minimum level of lighting for safety inside homes during air-raid alerts. Red light is emitted from the top, although lamp envelope gets very hot. Characteristics: Brass medium-screw base with glass insulator. Tungsten filament (intact). BT-style envelope with black coating around sides, and red coating on top. Note overspray around base-collar. Lamp purchased by donor at a Shrewsbury, PA antique shop in 1997. Printed on label: "Wabash / Blackout Bulb / For Blackout Lighting / Mf'd. By / Wabash Appliance Corp. / * Brooklyn, N.Y. / Patent Pending".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- incandescent lamp
- date made
- ca 1943
- maker
- Wabash Appliance Corporation
- Measurements
- overall: 4 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- 2003.0030.02
- accession number
- 2003.0030
- catalog number
- 2003.0030.02
- Credit Line
- from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Energy & Power
- Electric Lamps
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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