Safety Lamp Patent Model
date: label: Associated Date
content: 12-17-1867
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This safety lamp is a patent model constructed by John Harding of Warrington, Lancaster, Great Britain that received patent number 72,196 on December 17, 1867. Harding’s claim in the patent application is the “employment, and use of a soft-metal or other rivet, or other compressible plug, as a fastening for safety-lamps, instead of locks, screws, or other mechanical contrivances now employed.” The locking device can be seen on the base of this Davy-style lamp.
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Mining Lamps
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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-MT-308736
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MT-308736
label: patent number
content: 72196
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, safety, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp, patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 4 in x 3 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm x 8.89 cm