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Set Name: Work and Industry: Electricity (-) <span class="visually-hidden">excluded</span>Object Type: Demonstration Tubes Set Name: Electricity Clear All

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Point Contact Transistor

maker: RCA Corporation

ID Number: 1984.0120.04
accession number: 1984.0120
catalog number: 1984.0120.04

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ID Number: 1980.0405.02.02
accession number: 1980.0405

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Power control panel with three 0-400 amp DC ammeters

ID Number: 1980.0405.02.01
accession number: 1980.0405

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Marble panel with General Electric "Thomson" recording wattmeter

date made: ca 1910

maker: General Electric Company

ID Number: EM.322072
catalog number: 322072
accession number: 247989

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electric light fixture

ID Number: ZZ.RSN81564U00

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electrical light fixture

ID Number: ZZ.RSN81564U02

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associated person: Edison, Thomas Alva
maker: Edison General Electric Co.

ID Number: ZZ.RSN81562U11

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electrical light fixture

ID Number: ZZ.RSN81564U03

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electric light fixture

ID Number: ZZ.RSN81564U01

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Curtis & Crocker electric motor

maker: C & C Electric Motor Co.

ID Number: ZZ.RSN81564U05

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