Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Swan keyless lamp socket, about 1881. Swan hook & loop base with two knurled contacts, brass tensioning spring, threaded cone connector. Wood body, lamp held in place by wire spring contacts. Screw-pin socket mount. No extant maker's marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1881
- Credit Line
- from International Business Machines, Inc., William J. Hammer Collection
- Measurements
- socket: 1 5/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 3.4925 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Object Name
- Socket
- lamp socket
- Other Terms
- Socket; Components; Power and Lighting; Power and Lighting
