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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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Sockets More companies will be added to this list in the near future. We will also be adding a new list of post 1900 sockets and items. Bergmann & Co. Brush Electric Co. Bryant Electric Co. Crown Elect MFG Co. EE&S Holmes & Gale (HG) Perkins Thomson-Houston Westinghouse |
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Tutorial
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Charles
Francis Brush was one of the early pioneers and inventors of electric
lighting.
 Brush
received his bachelors degree in chemistry in 1869 at the age of
20 years old, but had already been experimenting and had completed
his first ARC light prior to this. By 1875 he made his first dynamo
and by 1877 took up space in a friends company (Cleveland Telegraph
Supply) to perfect his arc-lighting system. By 1880 Brush had solved
several major problems in arc-lighting. He invented a 16 hour double
carbon arc lamp, an automatic regulator for multiple lamps, and
introduced copper plated arc carbons. These three inventions solved
all of the major problems in arc lighting at the time.After these issues being solved there were no major changes in arc systems for the next ten years. With all of the attention being drawn to these new inventions and Francis Brush himself, it was not a hard thing for him to move forward and break into the open market with his new kind of lighting.
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The
1885 Brush-Swan Socket
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At
this time it is assumed that the Smooth Slits came first and were
out for a short time before making the socket compatible with the
Hawkeye bulb. It would not make much sense to make it compatible from
the start and then take it away. That could be bad for business. However,
if there were patent issues this could be the case. There are no catalogs
or article's picturing the Smooth Slits. Every Brush catalog, Western
Electrician article (March 1888) E.P Gleason catalog (1887) all show
the socket with the Serrated Slits. We are on the search for a socket shell WITHOUT the patent date on it. This will tell us for sure which came first. If you know of such a socket shell or a keyless version, please contact us. |
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The
picture on your right is taken from the 1885 Brush Catalog.
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