Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1876-04-25
name: label: patentee
content: Lee, John Q.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John Q. Lee of Plymouth, Pennsylvania that received patent number 176,650, dated April 25, 1876. The patent claims as its invention “A lamp-top composed of two thicknesses, and united by having one piece turned up and over the projecting flanges of the other, thereby dispensing with the use of solder.” A soldered top could come undone from the heat of the flame.
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Mining Lamps
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-9755
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9755
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: patent number
content: 176650
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, cap, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 in x 1 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm x 3.81 cm