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Incandescent Projector Lamp, by Siemens, Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 87906

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.87906

Subject
Lamps
Item type
Object
Makers
Siemens
Provenance
Presented by Mrs M. L. Pinsent in 1990. Belonged to her father, the chemist E. J. Bowen.
Object type
Lamp
Dimensions
Diameter: 24mm Height: 77mm Weight: 18g
Inventory No
87906
Accession Number
1990-9/7

Description

Cylindrical bulb, painted black dome at the large end with copper alloy bayonet fitting. Clear glass. Has a thin wire spiral filament.

Part of a collection of home-made apparatus, and some other items, belonging to the late Edmund John Bowen (1898-1980), selected from his workshop at 10 Park Town, Oxford (where he lived from c.1932).

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