New Jersey

Manufacturer Steuben Glass (American, founded 1903)

Artist Sidney Waugh (designer) (American, 1904 - 1963)

Date1950-1959

Mediumengraved crystal

Dimensions11 x 7 inches (27.9 x 17.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number41.8.1.31.A

ClassificationsDecorative Arts

DescriptionInvention - the electric light bulb.

Label Text“Perhaps in no other field is the United States as truly preeminent as in the field of invention and mechanical ingenuity. No single man personifies this gift as does Thomas Edison, and no single achievement so typifies Edison as the invention of the electric light. The first incandescent lamp was lighted in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey on October 19, 1879.” Sidney Waugh

ProvenanceManufacturer; purchased December 4, 1959 through (Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, Texas) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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