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Electric lamps and new ideas in lighting
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Humboldt Park street lamp
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View of a prairie-style street lamp on a concrete base in Humboldt Park. The lamp sits just off North Humboldt Drive, at the entrance to the parking lot for the Humboldt Park Boathouse.
Date:
1974
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
General Electric presents the development of lamps and lighting
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Mercury vapor and sodium vapor lamps on exhibit
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Mazda lamp demonstration in the General Electric exhibit
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
General Electric Vapor Lamp Company exhibit at the Electrical Building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Electric exhibit displaying different types of lamps used throughout human history
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Exhibit includes a stone lamp from ancient Babylonia; a crude saucer lamp from southern Europe; a bronze lamp from Rome; a Betty lamp used in colonial New England; a whale oil lamp likely used by an early Chicago family; Edison's first practical lamp; the smallest lamp in the world, used for medical examination inside the human body; and the "largest lamp in the world," used for lighting airports, athletic fields, and in the motion picture industry.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Incandescent lamp section of General Electric Company exhibit
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Sight Meter Demonstration where visitors can test their own eyesight
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access

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