CEAG Standard Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Standard Lamp manufactured by the CEAG Company (Concordia Elektrizitäts Aktien Gesellschaft) of Cologne, Germany. In 1912 the British Home Office issued a reward for a better electric safety lamp. The £600 reward was claimed by a German engineer for this lamp design. This lamp is the original Ceag Standard Lamp featuring a safety fuse and bulb suspension. The bulb floats between two springs, and if the glass was broken, the springs would disengage the fuse, rendering all the live parts of the lamp inert and preventing the ignition of flammable gasses. The bottom of the lamp contained the battery inside a steel tube. This lamp was used as a “trip lamp,” hung on the last car of a coal train inside the mine.
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content: Currently not on view
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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: Grant Wheat Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Pohs, Henry A.. Early Underground Lamps
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary R. Wheat
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8138
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, trip, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm