Lighting fixture, electric
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- OBJECT TYPE
- fluorescent/bipin
- DATE
- 1946
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.3031.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal lamp and mount/ metal and synthetic parts/ fabric covered wire
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 70.7 cm
- Width
- 3.2 cm
- Height
- 7.3 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
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1940s+
- Canada
-
An example of a lamp 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 which held fluorescent tube lamp bulbs, provided a housing for the bulbs and connected them to electricity, in order to provide illumination. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None
- Missing
- Unknown
- Finish
- Plated metal interior/ exterior and trim pained flat white/ black synthetic parts/ brown wire covering
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Lighting fixture, electric, circa 1946, Artifact no. 1992.3031, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.3031.002/
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