Lamp, electric arc
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ENCLOSED/LUMINOUS
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.1641.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian General Electric Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL, POSSIBLY ASBESTOS, WOOD, CERAMIC, POSSIBLY LEATHER, MICA
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 149.0 cm
- Width
- 28.0 cm
- Height
- 28.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Lighting Technology
- Category
- Lighting devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- General Electric
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Worldwide
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- COMMERCIAL ARC LIGHTING FIRST USED 1870S/ DECLINED AFTER C.1910/ SELDOM USED FOR SPACE LIGHTING BY 1940S
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
TO PROVIDE LIGHT/ INTENDED SPECIFICALLY FOR STREET LIGHTING, TO BE USED ON TOP OF AN ORNAMENTAL POLE - Technical
-
THE LUMINOUS ARC LAMP WAS PUT ON THE U.S. MARKET IN 1903 BY G.E. & WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THEIR MAIN CONTRIBUTION TO TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT IN ARC LIGHTING/ IMPROVEMENTS WERE LATER MADE IN ELECTRODES & MECHANISM/ THIS TYPE OF LUMINOUS ARC LAMP WAS MEANT TO BE ADAPTABLE TO ORNAMENTAL STREET LIGHTING, IN RESPONSE TO A GROWING INTEREST IN MORE 'ARTISTIC' TREATMENTS OF STREET LIGHTING. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- STAMPED ON UPPER TUBE '292540'/ ON UPPER PLATE '380434-A'/ ON A LOWER PLATE '292517-F'
- Missing
- CASING, GLASSWARE
- Finish
- OUTER PTS & SOME INNER ONES APPEAR TO BE PAINTED BLACK, MUCH OF FINISH NOW MISSING, SHOWS CONSIDERABLE CORROSION/ SOME PTS UNFINISHED SILVER-GREY
- Decoration
- N/A
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Canadian General Electric Co., Lamp, electric arc, circa 1920, Artifact no. 1992.1641, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.1641.001/
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