Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Edison "wooden-mogul" keyless lamp socket. Wooden shell with three brass contacts and inner screw shell, brass cap threaded for mounting on pipe nipple. One contact screw missing. Paper label: "No. 215", second paper label faded and illegible.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- date made
- 1880
- Credit Line
- from Frank A. Wardlaw, Jr. and Frank A. Wardlaw
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 2 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 5.715 cm
- Object Name
- Lamp Socket
