Lighting fixture, electric
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ceiling/1 socket/screw fitting
- DATE
- 1912–1940
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0825.005
- MANUFACTURER
- Plume & Atwood Mfg. Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 5
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Glass shade, metal fittings.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- 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
- Plume Atwood
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Connecticut
- City
- Waterbury
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
For part of their working life (from sometime after 1967 to 1993), these lamps and two other identical ones (SP1379) were used as light sources in a CSTM exhibit. - Function
-
Electric lighting device - to hold and provide housing for lamp bulb, and to connect it to electricity, in order to provide light. - Technical
-
Example of decorative domestic lighting fixture. Use of electricity for home lighting goes back to 1880's, but did not become widespread until early decades of the 20th century./ Plume & Atwood was originally founded in 1869 as a mfr. of lamp burners by Lewis Atwood. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Cast lettering inside fitting reads: "THE PLUME & ATWOOD MFG. CO./ WATERBURY, CONN., U.S.A."
- Missing
- Lamp bulbs.
- Finish
- Translucent white glass; Gold coloured fittings.
- Decoration
- Shades have scalloped edge & pattern of evenly diverging ridges & grooves running from centre to edge; Shade fittings have series of concentric parallel grooves.
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Plume & Atwood Mfg. Co., Lighting fixture, electric, between 1912–1940, Artifact no. 1966.0825, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1966.0825.005/
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