Image / Douglas Perham and Lee de Forest with 1893 Westinghouse light bulb

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Title: Douglas Perham and Lee de Forest with 1893 Westinghouse light bulb
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957/ /
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: Taken at the Cavalcade of Electronics, Dr. Lee de Forest (right) joins Douglas Perham to look at one of George Westinghouse's early light bulbs. The lamp was given to Perham, then aged six, by Westinghouse at 1893 Chicago's World Fair.
Type: image
Format: Black & White, Gelatin Silver Print
Identifier: 9B1F05D4-9AA7-4BD0-A0A0-340305564410
2003-59-447
Subject: Light bulbs
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Collectors and collecting--United States (LCSH)
Exhibitions
Electronics (LCSH)
De Forest, Lee
Perham, Douglas M

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