Object Details
- associated user
- unknown
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- S. R. Wells & Co.
- Description
- Inventing a new technical device not only involves creating the device itself, but often entails creating special tools to produce the device or the component pieces of the device. Thomas Edison conducted experiments on hundreds of different types of natural fibers in his search for a material that would serve as a light bulb filament.
- Credit Line
- from Vannevar Bush
- 1880
- ID Number
- EM.314259
- catalog number
- 314259
- accession number
- 198085
- Object Name
- Tool
- filament tool
- Measurements
- overall: 9 in x 14 in x 9 in; 22.86 cm x 35.56 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Energy & Power
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Exhibition
- Lighting a Revolution
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_703491
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-9886-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
