Functioning Vintage 1930s General Electric (GE) Novalux Form 6 Street Light

  
This particular lamp was originally used in Union Station in Chicago in the 30s, and has been rewired to be functional yet again as a standard light fixture (no need for the direct current wiring for it to be used now, but parts still present) GE's Novalux Form 6 was one of GE's first high output pendant type incandescent luminaires that used glass refractors for light diffusion. GE offered five refractor options in the late teens through the 1920s that appeared in their product reviews. The Form 6 had a cast iron cover and a long body made of thin copper. The body originally held a 6.6 amp isolation autotransformer that would keep the high voltage series circuit alive when a lamp.

As the body of the lamp was metal, it was suspended by means of an insulator so that the span wire would not become energized in the event any internal wiring touched the metal body.