Automobile Lamp Kit
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here is another unusual piece of American vintage lighting albeit automotive .Please see below how the General Electric co. merger with Mazda nearly a century ago . Here is a chance to have a small part of that heritage.$40 bucks.
General Electric, armed with its ductile tungsten filament technology and backed by strong and broad patents, developed a plan to assure itself commercial advantage and to standardize manufacturing and performance standards for the entire incandescent lamp industry. This program, launched in late 1909, and successfully continued until after World War II, bore the name Mazda. Ahura Mazda (sometimes spelled Mazdah) is the creator of heaven and earth and is the supreme god in the ancient Persian religion founded by the prophet Zoroaster more than 2,600 years ago. According to Zoroastrian teaching, Ahura Mazda, as the leader of the heavenly host, battles evil and dispels darkness.
General Electric filed a federal trademark application for the Mazda name for use in connection with the manufacture and sale of electric lamps on 29 December 1909. The application asserted a first use of the name by General Electric in interstate commerce on 21 December 1909. General Electric received trademark registration number 77,779 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on 3 May 1910. The first lamps marketed under the Mazda name had European-designed tantalum and nonductile tungsten filaments. However, General Electric soon switched to producing ductile tungsten filament lamps based on the work of Coolidge and Langmuir.
The advertised intent and purpose of the Mazda program is best set forth in the following statement published here is another unusual piece of American vintage lighting albeit automotive .Please see below how the General Electric co. merger with Mazda nearly a century ago . Here is a chance to have a small part of that heritage.$40 bucks.
General Electric, armed with its ductile tungsten filament technology and backed by strong and broad patents, developed a plan to assure itself commercial advantage and to standardize manufacturing and performance standards for the entire incandescent lamp industry. This program, launched in late 1909, and successfully continued until after World War II, bore the name Mazda. Ahura Mazda (sometimes spelled Mazdah) is the creator of heaven and earth and is the supreme god in the ancient Persian religion founded by the prophet Zoroaster more than 2,600 years ago. According to Zoroastrian teaching, Ahura Mazda, as the leader of the heavenly host, battles evil and dispels darkness.
General Electric filed a federal trademark application for the Mazda name for use in connection with the manufacture and sale of electric lamps on 29 December 1909. The application asserted a first use of the name by General Electric in interstate commerce on 21 December 1909. General Electric received trademark registration number 77,779 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on 3 May 1910. The first lamps marketed under the Mazda name had European-designed tantalum and nonductile tungsten filaments. However, General Electric soon switched to producing ductile tungsten filament lamps based on the work of Coolidge and Langmuir.
The advertised intent and purpose of the Mazda program is best set forth in the following statement published
