Fixture for Edison light bulb
Fixture for Edison light bulb
- Description (Brief)
- Donor reported: "Fixture and lamp socket, with covered tin shade, used by engravers to concentrate the light on a small space. This fixture and shade excited great interest at the time as it was apparently the first shade that any one had ever seen which covered the top of the lamp or light without ventilation. Double swing gas pipe brackets with rough tin shades - one extra shade." A converted gas fixture with a keyless Edison socket for a Johnson bevel-ring incandescent lamp. Used in the Hinds-Ketchum printing plant as part of the first commercial installation of the Edison lighting system.
- Object Name
- luminaire
- Other Terms
- lighting; luminaire; Lighting Devices
- Date made
- 1881
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
- Measurements
- overall: 24 in x 5 in x 15 in; 60.96 cm x 12.7 cm x 38.1 cm
- ID Number
- EM.180939
- catalog number
- 180939
- accession number
- 24315
- Credit Line
- from Joseph E. Hinds
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Energy & Power
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Exhibition
- Lighting a Revolution
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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