Vintage Miller Utility Sunlite (therapy and 39 similar items

Vintage Miller Utility Sunlite (therapy light) Untouched, un-restored, everything original In 1932 GE's Lighting Headquarters at NELA Park unveiled a most unusual light source to the world. It was the S-1 Sunlight lamp, conceived by Matthew Luckiesh to deliver a light output closely resembling that of the sun. His goal was to develop a light source with the same mild ultraviolet content as natural sunlight, in the belief that irradiating people with this light would give them vitality and maintain health. Judging from the spectacular sales of the lamp, the public seemed to believe this marketing as well! The GE Mazda type S-2 sunlamp was marketed during the 1930s as a “distinctly artificial sunlight source for ultraviolet health radiation”. This lamp was the smaller domestic offshoot of the larger Mazda type S-1 sunlamp. Early lamps were made of clear hard glass while later examples were inside frosted. Clear envelopes were only made for a short period of time, perhaps for one year, and today clear S-2 lamps are quite scarce and collectible. S-2 lamps have also been spotted with the filament “pointing” towards the base of the lamp and anchored to the stem