Lamp bulb, incandescent
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- OBJECT TYPE
- carbon/20W/5V/pear/screw/miniature
- DATE
- 1915
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.2893.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 6
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Glass bulb/ metal base and parts/ carbon filament/ ceramic part
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 7.6 cm
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 3.5 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Lighting Technology
- Category
- Lamp bulbs
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- circa 1915+
- Canada
-
Part of a large and varied collection of over 7500 electrical items acquired and documented by Ontario Hydro in the 1960s. The collection was thought to be the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in Canada and was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 1992 - Function
-
A device used to provide light by means of an electric current which heats up a carbon filament inside the lamp bulb to incandescence. This type of lamp bulb was used for signal or decorative lighting. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Red painted '886' on glass/ handwritten black 'B O/ 5' on interior glass/ black stamped '24 W 50' on base
- Missing
- Appears complete
- Finish
- Colourless and transparent glass/ gold coloured base/ black ceramic
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Lamp bulb, incandescent, circa 1915, Artifact no. 1992.2893, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.2893.003/
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