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xl0042  

 

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history and origins
 
Manufacturer / Brand Name
Glo Lite

Country of Origin
USA

Factory Location
Unknown

Date of Manufacture
ca.1938
 
electrical attributes
 
Voltage
15

Wattage / Candle Power
Unknown

Amperage

 

physical attributes
 
Envelope
Candle
Atmosphere
Unknown


Finish / Color
Green Biscuit / Orange Tube
Filament
Tungsten

 
Base
Edison; Miniature
 
 
comments
  Based on John Frei Junior's 1933 patent15, this lamp resembles a bubble light, but it actually is not. The long tube is made of solid glass and glows from the light cast from a lamp located in the metal cone in the center of the “half biscuit” shape. These lamps pre-date the first bubble lights and this example utilizes a lamp made by the Matchless Electric Company. After Noma acquired Glo-Lite, the remaining stock of biscuits used in these candle lamps were utilized on the earliest Noma bubble lights1.