Bulb, Light
- Object Name:
- Bulb, Light
- Object ID:
- 1992.500.01
- Date:
- circa 1911
- Description:
- Bulb, electric light. Glass and metal. Rounded, inverted tear-drop shape, clear glass lamp body with a sealed glass nub on top. Short glass column on inside that supports the large looping filament wire at its central point. Ends of filament attached to shorter glass wires that feed out through the sealed column and go into base section. Edison-base is made from brass that has been rolled to create threads. Dark glass insulator section at bottom of threaded area. At end of insulator is black brass disc with soldered wire connection. The other end of filament wire is soldered to top edge of brass near glass globe junction. Numbers 1760 painted on side of glass column in side outer envelope. Paper within the filament support is printed: "THIS LAMP IS / GUARANTEED".
- Material:
- Glass
Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-4.9 Dia-2.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Found lying in bottom of skylight over small gallery, east wing, second floor of NHHS Library, 07/03/1992. May have been in the skylight when the building was completed in 1911.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Collection
- Subjects:
- Light bulbs
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