Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This lamp has an Edison base but the stem press is more like those made by Mather Electric Company.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Mather
- date made
- ca 1883
- Credit Line
- from Princeton University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, thru Dean Howard Menand
- Measurements
- overall: 12.5 cm x 5.2 cm; 4 29/32 in x 2 1/16 in
- Object Name
- incandescent lamp
- Other Terms
- Lighting Devices; Edison; Horseshoe; Carbon
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