Lamp bulb, incandescent
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- OBJECT TYPE
- carbon/vacuum/120V/16CP/tipless/round/screw
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.2911.001
- MANUFACTURER
- North American Lamp Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Glass bulb/ metal base and parts/ carbon filament/ ceramic parts
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 8.2 cm
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 5.9 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Lighting Technology
- Category
- Lamp bulbs
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- NALCO
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- circa 1920+
- Canada
-
An example of an American made lamp bulb used in 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 was used for general and decorative lighting. - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None
- Missing
- Appears complete
- Finish
- Colourless transparent glass/ gold coloured base/ metallic parts/ black ceramic
- Decoration
- N/A
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North American Lamp Co., Lamp bulb, incandescent, circa 1920, Artifact no. 1992.2911, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.2911.001/
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