Object Details
- 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.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1881
- Credit Line
- from Joseph E. Hinds
- Measurements
- overall: 24 in x 5 in x 15 in; 60.96 cm x 12.7 cm x 38.1 cm
- Object Name
- luminaire
- Other Terms
- lighting; luminaire; Lighting Devices
