April 16, 2024
Antique Edison bergmann fuse box
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This is a very early Edison Bergmann wooden socket fuse box This found on the internet........ (Edison gave the first public demonstration of incandescent electric lighting on December 31, 1879. He didn't waste any time in planning for the marketing of his discovery. The first commercial installation of an Edison incandescent lighting system was in the Spring of 1880, on the cruise ship S. S. Columbia. Edison and his collaborators had a remarkable grasp of the many requirements for a successful installation. Edison himself filed the first patent for a suitable fuse on March 25, 1880 (1st photo). It is not surprising that this was a fuse within the electric wire, because his bulbs of early 1880 had no base, so that there was no concept yet of a screw-in fuse.Edison's first two versions of bulbs with a screw-in base were developed later in 1880 and in 1881. The Edison base as we know it, with a center contact at the bottom, was created late in 1881 or early 1882. The screw-in fuse came at that time. Edison mentions the existence of that fuse in a letter he wrote May 2, 1882 The patent for that fuse and its fuse-block was filed by Edison's collaborator Sigmund Bergmann on February 25, 1882. That same patent also has the first socket with the Edison base as we know it. An illustration of that fuse and fuse-block can be seen in the October
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