[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Wire

[J. Forster]

You may still be able to get a modern version of that stuff at a custom
lamp shop. My kitchen table has such a lamp with an egg-shaped reel
mechanism half-way between the lamp and ceiling.

-John

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> A common item in hardware stores through at least the 1940s was twisted
> pair electrical wire called "drop cord".  This was a pair of stranded,
> rubber-covered conductors and then each conductor had a braided yellow
> and green textile covering.  I think one of the wires included a little
> bit of red thread so they could be told apart.
>
> When I was seven years old in 1945 I got to visit the Smithsonian.
> About the only exhibit I still vividly remember was a glass case where
> if you pushed a button on the side a machine inside wove the yellow and
> green fabric over a rubber covered wire.  I remember a bunch of spools
> of yellow and green thread that went around the wire in opposite
> directions, weaving the covering as the wire was wound on a spool below.
>
> Something I never saw in operation, but I saw some wiring that had been
> pulled out of an old house, and it included lots of drop cord and
> pulleys and weights and light sockets.  So I guess there was some
> arrangement for moving a light bulb around in a room.  I do remember
> seeing a porcelain connector mounted on a ceiling, with a mating
> connector having drop cord attached and then hanging down to a
> light bulb socket.  The two-piece porcelain connector may have been
> called a rosette.
>
>
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