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- OBJECT TYPE
- Westinghouse/locking
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.2562.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- 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
- brass shell/ copper/ porcelain/ synthetic/ steel/ wax
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 4.4 cm
- Width
- 3.9 cm
- Height
- 7.3 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Energy-electric
- Category
- User site
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- circa 1920 +
- Canada
-
An example of a socket of a type used & possibly made in Canada. Part of a large & varied collection of over 7500 electrical items acquired & documented by Ontario Hydro in the 1960s. The collection was thought to be the largest & most comprehensive of its kind in Canada & was donated to the National Museum of Science & Technology in 1992. - Function
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An electrical wiring device used to support & connect to electricity a lamp or other electrical device. - Technical
-
An example of a Westinghouse socket of circa 1920. A simple arrangement which did not require the service of a mechanic to change a lamp was a necessity for commercial production of electric lamp sockets. In 1880 Edison introduced the screw cap which still bears his name (Ref. 3). Besides the Edison screw socket & receptacle, other methods of supporting lamps appeared: most common were the Thomson-Houston, the Westinghouse & the bayonet types (Ref. 4). The lock socket was developed around 1900 to 1909 to avoid the stealing of lamps in public places. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- none
- Missing
- appears complete
- Finish
- shell painted black
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Socket, circa 1920, Artifact no. 1992.2562, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.2562.001/
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