Kama electric lamp for Nernst filaments

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Kama electric lamp for Nernst filaments. Three filament lamp with flex connection and instructions in carton. No spirit burner.

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Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/230

type:: lamp

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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Kama electric lamp for Nernst filaments

Kama electric lamp for Nernst filaments. Three filament lamp with flex connection.

This lamp was produced by the firm of L. Kamm & Co around 1906 and was intended as an alternative portable electric light source to go inside a projector. Called ‘The KAMA Patent Electric Projecting Lamp for Nernst Filaments’ it was designed by the company’s founder Leonard Kamm who also invented the Kammatograph moving picture system in 1898.