ribbon lamp
Dateearly 20th-mid 20th Century
Inventory Number1998-1-0768
ClassificationDischarge Tube
Subject
Maker
American
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Cultural Region
Dimensions6.5 x 2.4 x 6.5 cm (2 9/16 x 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Material
DescriptionA ribbon lamp or discharge tube, consisting of a long, tubular, clear glass bulb with a pointed tip. Inside, two sturdy metal filament supports, one shorter and one longer, curve inward and between them thin flat strip of metal is stretched.
The bulb has a metal, screw-type mount.
The bulb has a metal, screw-type mount.
Signedunsigned
Inscribedprinted inscription on a sticker on the bulb: No 186;
partly illegible handwritten inscription: B[?]n B[?]e Down, T[?]e Away;
additional markings on inside: 2 mm / 986
Curatorial RemarksSimilar to 1998-1-0769.
FunctionElectric lighting. With this type of bulb, light is emitted when a gas or vapor inside the sealed glass conducts current, when voltage is applied.
Sylvania
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: RS0368
Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: 1997-1-0767
Edison Manufacturing Company
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Accessories: 12 light bulbs in a shoe box
Object number: 1997-1-0778
Edison Manufacturing Company
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Object number: RS0370
Sylvania
Date: late 19th-early 20th Century
Accessories: brown cardboard box, with handwritten note, "345 on 35"
Object number: RS0369
Date: 1890-1930
Object number: RS0505
Isaac Adams, Jr.
Date: 1865
Accessories: stored in modern cardboard tube with cotton wool. square wooden box, unmarked, with a sliding cover;
a small, approximately 2"x3" cardboard box, used for shipping, with postage indicating its use in 1930, from Daniel Lowe & Co., Salem, Massachusetts, to Mrs. R. Adams, Antisquam, Massachusetts.
Object number: 1997-1-1949
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