Two Incandescent Electric Lamps

Made:
circa 1893
Historical incandescent electric lamps, viz

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Historical incandescent electric lamps, viz
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Historical incandescent electric lamps, viz. (a) Buckeye; (b) Westinghouse.

a) Buckeye Lamp with Pollard silver powder conductor in place of leading-in-wire, 1893.

b) Westinghouse stopper lamp used at Chicago Worlds Fair, 1893 (filament broken).

Details

Category:
Lighting
Object Number:
1908-38
Materials:
glass and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
type:
incandescent lamp
credit:
Spiller, A