She has turned to making lamps at home and selling them at barter fairs around the city.

Bottle-shaped pitchers like the old stone bottles used to keep water or wine cold in biblical times cost $33 and would make very attractive lamps.

Most objects found were made of clay: pots, plates, amphoras and lamps.

"We can't go lugging 50-pound cases to walk-ups for people to make lamps," he said.

Other companies that made lamps there before and after General Electric are defunct.

This made lamps in use for several hundred hours quite fragile.

They said it could make lamps go out, and much worse things.

He began making lamps from brass shell casings as gifts to friends.

It made golden lamps of a pair of eyes.

General Electric once made mercury-vapor lamps in the building.