Lamp bulb display

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OBJECT TYPE: fluorescent/tube/bipin
DATE: 1950
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1992.2989.010

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: General Electric
LOCATION: Unknown

More Information

General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 10
Total Parts: 10
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Wood board/ synthetic cover/ ceramic lamp bulb holders/ metal wiring and parts/ synthetic parts

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 58.5 cm
Width: 58.5 cm
Height: 8.0 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Lighting Technology
Category: Lamp bulbs
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: North America
State/Province: Unknown
Period: 1950s-1960s
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: An electrically wired display board upon which care mounted in fixtures nine flourescent bulbs, in order to test, demonstrate or display different types of fluorescent light produced by GE.
Technical: A panel designed to display or test fluorescent lamp bulbs.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: White lettering down one side of board labels each bulb and reads 'standard/ cool white', 'de luxe/ cool white', 'standard/ warm white', 'de luxe/ warm white', 'pink', 'blue', 'green', 'gold', 'red'
Missing: Appears complete
Finish: Grey painted wood/ colourless transparent and black synthetic/ white ceramic/ metallic parts
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Lamp bulb display, circa 1950, Artifact no. 1992.2989, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.2989.010/

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