LAMP, ELECTRIC

Description: GREY PAINTED STEEL BOX WITH TAPERED FRONT FACE. FACE HAS BLACK PLASTIC PLATE WITH "FIBRE OPTIC LIGHT CARRIER POWER SUPPLY" STAMPED ACROSS TOP. BELOW IS BLACK PLASTIC KNOB AND ON/OFF SWITCH AS WELL AS GLASS DOME WITH STEEL COLLAR. ACROSS BOTTOM OF FRONT PLATE IS "AMERICAN CYSTOSCOPE MAKERS INC. PELHAM MANOR, NEW YORK". ON TOP OF UNIT IS LEATHER HANDLE WITH STEEL HINGES. BEHIND HANDLE IS ALUMINUM PLATE RIVETED DOWN. ACROSS TOP IS "AMERICAN CYSTOSCOPE MAKERS, INC. DESIGNERS AND SOLE PRODUCERS OF WAPPLER AND ACMI INSTRUMENTS SINCE 1900 PELHAM MANOR, (PELHAM) NEW YORK, U.S.A.". ALSO LISTED IS ELECTRICAL INFORMATION AND "CAT. NO. FCB 100 SERIAL NO. 32-1999". AT BACK LEFT SIDE EXTENDS BLACK POWER CORD AND GREEN CORD FOR OTHER POWER SOURCE. ON RIGHT SIDE OF UNIT IS CIRCULAR VENT WITH STEEL MESH COVER. ALSO HAS STEEL BRACKET WITH VERTICAL TUBE AND CIRCULAR COLLAR FOR LIGHT CORD. BACK OF UNIT IS HINGED DOOR WITH ALUMINUM BRACKET MOUNTED VERTICALLY FOR POWER CORD TO WRAP AROUND. BACK ALSO HAS TWO STRIPS OF TAPE WITH HANDWRITTEN DATES OF THEN INDICATED WHEN LIGHT BULB INSIDE WAS CHANGED. DATES RANGE FROM FEB. 1976 TO JUNE 1983.

History: FIBRE OPTIC LIGHT SOURCE WAS USED WITH CYSTOCOPES FROM THE LATE 1960'S ON. SEE P19960116225-GA FOR EXAMPLE. LIGHT SOURCE WAS REMOVED FROM ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL BEFORE THE HOSPITAL WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1996. FOR MORE HISTORY ON HOSPITAL SEE P19960116001-GA.