Automatic Gas Lighter Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1875
label: patent date
content: 1876-05-30
label: date patent model received
content: 1876-03-04
label: patent date of lighter mechanism
content: 1865-06-17
label: patent date of lighter mechanism
content: 1874-10-06
name: label: inventor
content: Vogel, Kasimir
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Chelsea
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.330420
label: catalog number
content: 330420
label: patent number
content: 178,211
label: accession number
content: 88881
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fire Lighter, Automatic
label: Other Terms
content: Lighter, Part of; Fire Lighter, Automatic; Fire Making Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (plates, gearwheels, coil spring for lever follower, vertical bar, parts of burner material)
label: Physical Description
content: gilded brass (parts of burner; lighter mechanism lever, case, cover and chain material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (lever follower, disks, arbors, pins material)
label: Physical Description
content: blued steel (hour and minute hands material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 11 in; 8.255 cm x 13.0175 cm x 27.94 cm