Demonstration "Mazda F" sales kit
Demonstration "Mazda F" sales kit
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- Description (Brief)
- This set of six fluorescent lamps in a lined, cloth wrap was part of a demonstration kit that General Electric sales people used to introduce the new product. When originally introduced, fluorescent lamps came in assorted colors and four sizes. The pockets in this wrap held nine lamps of 1-inch diameter and three 1.25-inch diameter. The lamps in this wrap include red, gold, two greens and two shades of white. One of the green lamps is not original to the wrap since it lacks the Mazda trade name.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- sales kit
- discharge lamp
- fluorescent lamp
- date made
- ca 1937
- maker
- General Electric
- Physical Description
- arsnic (red lamp) (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- tungsten (overall material)
- cloth (overall material)
- Measurements
- kit overall: 21 1/2 in x 32 in x 1 1/8 in; 54.61 cm x 81.28 cm x 2.8575 cm
- each lamp: 18 in x 1 in; 45.72 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- 1997.0388.32
- accession number
- 1997.0388
- catalog number
- 1997.0388.32
- Credit Line
- from General Electric Lighting Company, thru Terry K. McGowan
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Electric Lamps
- Energy & Power
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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