Hubbell pull-chain lamp socket with shade ring
Hubbell pull-chain lamp socket with shade ring
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- Description (Brief)
- Socket for medium screw base lamp, pull chain missing, paper shell insulator, mica socket insulator, threaded base for mounting on a pipe nipple, mounting ring for lamp shade. Stamped on side: "Harvey Hubble / Pat'd Aug. 11, 1896."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Socket with Switch
- lamp socket
- Other Terms
- Socket with Switch; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
- date made
- ca 1897
- maker
- Harvey Hubbell Inc.
- Measurements
- socket with shade ring: 2 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- EM.241402.113
- accession number
- 241402
- catalog number
- 241402.113
- Credit Line
- from International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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