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Learning
Tools And Research Material
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User Forums
Post pictures of your items and ask questions or just
learn from reading the posts from others
Ad
Database
View or upload ads from antique magazines
Bulb
& Socket Bases
View images of the most well known bulb and socket bases
Patent Utilities
Patent
Linker
Lets You Pull Up Any Patent PDF File Or Link One Directly
To Your Web Page
Group Patent Dbase
Lets
You Download The First Page Patent Picture Of Every Patent On A Single
Day To View On Quickly Your Local Computer
MultiView Search
Lets
You Search For Patents Using Advanced Methods And Provides Hyper Links
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I
have not had much time to get many items in the forsale area below.
Please keep checking back as I will start adding more items soon.
Items
For Sale
Cord
Balls & Adjusters
NEW - My cord
pendant adjuster project, as well as a good history about them.
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Socket
& Electrical Manufacturer's Items And Their History
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GECO
Sockets
NEW
- This section will allow you to date
and learn how to tell one GECO socket from the other.
Hubbell
This is where this site started from. Since this page
was done, there has been much more Hubbell history and information
found which will make for a complete redesign of this page and section
in the soon future.
Hubbell Patents
This section has some early patent research on Hubbell.
It is mostly complete with only a few missing patents which will be
added in when this section is re done into the new format
Wheeler Reflector
Co.
NEW - A history of The
Wheeler Reflector Company and tips on how to tell if mirror has been
replaced on a shade
Other Manufacturers
This section is a lot of incomplete
work and will be updated shortly. For now it serves to give you some
extended information on some companies, but will be a much better
tool when it is complete
NEC
This section is everything you ever wanted to know about the National
Electrical Code (NEC) but had no one to ask. Downloads of old NEC's,
meetings and much extended information is provided.
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Tutorial
And Early Lighting History
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The Lighting Time Table
To
read the entire tutorial, you can just click on the first link and
then continue to the next section at the bottom of each page. Or,
you can select links below of interest to you.
PRE 1900 SECTION
Overcoming Obstacles
About Early Electric Lighting, Generators, Arc Lamps,
The First Edison Socket, Menlo Park, etc.
The
First Fixtures
About The Start Of The First Incandescent Lighting
Fixtures
Light
Reflection
About Early Light Bulbs And Candle Power vs. WATTS
Edison-Bergmann
About Sigmund Bergmann And The Start Of Bergmann
And Company Lighting Fixtures
Lighting
Break Down
A Quick Break Down Of Different Lighting Time Periods
Styles
1881 to 1884
Bergmann Fixtures And Styles
Other
Pre-1888 Styles
About Early Companies That Sold Lighting Systems
And The Fixtures That They Sold With Their Lighting Systems
The
U.S. Elect. Co.
The United States Electric Company History And Early
Items
The
Brush Elect. Co.
The Brush Electric Company History And Early Items
Thomson-Houston
The Thomson-Houston Electric Company History And
Early Items
Westinghouse
About The Westinghouse Manufacturing Company History
And Early Mergers
Mid
1880's Styles
About The Start Of Electrical Supply Houses and
how new lighting styles came about
Pre
1900 Sockets
About Early Light Sockets And How To Tell The Difference
1887
New Items
1888
New Items
1890
New Items
1891
New Items
1892
New Items
1893
New Items
1894-1896
Items
1897
New Items
1898
New Items
1899
New Items
Above are catalog items sold in different years. There is no space
to duplicate items, so only new and unique items from each year
are shown. You would need to view the catalogs for yourself to be
complete as I am only highlighting items. You can view catalogs
here.
EXTRA INFO
Victor
Shade Holder
About The Victor Shade Holder, Atwood And The Standard
Holder
I.P.
Frink 1899 Items
About
Frink & Wheeler
New
Wheeler Inverted
Three Links About Mirror Reflector Manufacturers
And Their Items And History.
Wheeler Reflector
Co.
NEW - A history of The
Wheeler Reflector Company and tips on how to tell if mirror has
been replaced on a shade
Early Desk Lamps
Some Help In Telling Them Apart
Vitrite And Luminoid
About The Vitrite Holders And Early Vitrite History
Brush-Swan Holder
About Brush-Swan Shade Holders
Cord
Balls
My cord pendant adjuster project, as well as a good
history about them.
POST 1900 SECTION
About
1900 Styles
This section covers a basic into into the 1900 section
covering information about the 1899 transition, electrical code
changes, lighting influence, sharing and licensing of patents and
then into the new section of electrical specialty manufacturers,
Electrical Specialty Manufacturers
Harvey
Hubbell
This section covers some early history periods of
pre Hubbell-Grier, Hubbell-Grier, Harvey Hubbell, Hubbell Company.
It also covers a number of items that helped change lighting styles,
Benjamin
This section covers some early history periods for
the Benjamin Electric MFG. Co, as well as a small section on Dale
and The Federal Electric Company
Dale
Federal
Electric
This post 1900 section continues to be under current
construction
Please Check Back.
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WHO'S WHO?
Patent History Of Socket And Switch Manufacturers, Inventors And Their
Inventions
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Assigned To:
John
H. Dale, of New York N.Y.
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CLUSTER
LAMP SOCKET |
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Patent
Class:
439/541 |
Inventor:
John H. Dale
Assigned To:
John H. Dale, of New York N.Y.
Patent Applied For: 05/06/1908
Patent Approved On:
05/24/1910
Witnesses:
Waldo M. Chapin
James D. Antonio
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Patent(s)
Assigned To:
John
Darby, of Summit New Jersey
Clifford
D. Meeker, of Orange New Jersey
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LAMP
SOCKET |
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Patent
Class:
200/418 |
Inventor:
John Darby
Assigned To:
John Darby, of Summit New Jersey
Patent Applied For: 02/03/1909
Patent Approved On:
10/11/1910
Witnesses:
John D. Morgan
Clifford D. Meeker
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| 1056154 |
LAMP
SOCKET |
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Class:
200/470
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Inventor:
John Darby
Assigned To:
John Darby, of Summit New Jersey
Patent Applied For: 10/12/1910
Patent Approved On:
03/18/1913
Witnesses:
Rose Mank
Louella F. Little
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| 1076026 |
LAMP
SOCKET |
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Class:
200/418 |
Inventor:
John Darby & Clifford D. Meeker
Assigned To:
John Darby, of Summit New Jersey
Clifford D. Meeker, of Orange New Jersey
Patent Applied For: 02/04/1910
Patent Approved On:
10/21/1913
Witnesses:
John D. Morgan
Rode Menk
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Patent(s)
Assigned To:
James
Mattison Davis, of Dallas Texas
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Description
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Patent
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| 1303464 |
DISTANT-CONTROL-SWITCH
SOCKET FOR ELECTRIC.. |
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Patent
Class:
307/112 |
Inventor:
James Mattison Davis
Assigned To:
James Mattison Davis, of Dallas Texas
Patent Applied For: 06/08/1917
Patent Approved On:
05/13/1919
Witnesses:
Israel Doeben
Ola Sparks
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Patent(s)
Assigned To:
Louis
W. Dillon, of North Attleborough Massachusetts
Homer M. Daggett Jr., of Attleborough Massachusetts
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Patent
Picture
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| 399134 |
ELECTRIC
LAMP FIXTURE AND SWITCH |
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Patent
Class:
200/546 |
Inventor:
Louis W. Dillon
Assigned To:
Louis W. Dillon, of North Attleborough Massachusetts
Homer M. Daggett Jr., of Attleborough Massachusetts
Patent Applied For: 08/07/1888
Patent Approved On:
03/05/1889
Witnesses:
Jos. P. Livermore
M. E. Hill
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Patent(s)
Assigned To:
Leo
Dorner, of Denver Colorado
George H. Norquist, of Denver Colorado
Robert S. Willoughby, of Denver Colorado
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Description
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INCANDESCENT
LAMP SOCKET |
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Class:
439/753 |
Inventor:
Leo Dorner & George H. Norquist
Assigned To:
Leo Dorner, of Denver Colorado
George H. Norquist, of Denver Colorado
Robert S. Willoughby, of Denver Colorado
Patent Applied For: 12/11/1908
Patent Approved On:
12/21/1909
Witnesses:
Robert H. Kane
May Hays
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Patent(s)
Assigned To:
Douglas
& Rudd Manufacturing Company, of Bronson Michigan
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Patent
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ELECTRICAL
CONECTOR |
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Class:
200/51.02 |
Inventor:
Harry A. Douglas
Assigned To:
Douglas & Rudd Manufacturing Company, of Bronson Michigan
Patent Applied For: 05/11/1915
Patent Approved On:
05/08/1917
Witnesses:
Henery C. Bowker
Will M. Foster
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Patent(s)
Assigned To:
Gilbert
T. Dunklin, of South Bend Indiana
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Description
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Patent
Picture
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| 1082683 |
AUTOMATIC
CUT-OUT AND COMPENSATING SOCKET |
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Patent
Class:
315/126
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Inventor:
Gilbert T. Dunklin
Assigned To:
Gilbert T. Dunklin, of South Bend Indiana
Patent Applied For: 03/21/1912
Patent Approved On:
12/30/1913
Witnesses:
L. W. Hammerschmidt
L. W. Cook
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