Excerpt from Wiring Houses for the Electric Light: Together With Special References to Low Voltage Battery Systems The socket consists of a Shell having insulated contacts of brass, into which the lamp screws and makes connection between its base and the con tacts in the socket. The wires having been attached to this socket convey the current through these contacts to the filament in the lamp and the filament becomes white hot, giving the desired illumination.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.