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240V/200W Gasfilled Incandescent Lamp, by Crompton, Mid 20th Century

Inventory Number 78565

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.78565

Subject
Lamps
Item type
Object
Makers
Crompton
Provenance
Presented by Mrs M. L. Pinsent in 1990. Belonged to her father, the chemist E. J. Bowen.
Physical material
Glass
Metal
Copper Alloy
Object type
Lamp
Dimensions
Diameter: 80mm Height: 170mm Weight: 83g
Inventory No
78565
Accession Number
1990-9/7

Description

240V incandescent large colourless, translucent lamp bulb with copper alloy bayonet fitting. Has a thin wire 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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