Wheat Lamp Battery Box
notes: label: Description
content: This is the battery box portion of a Wheat Lamp Model W cap lamp that was made by the Koehler Manufacturing Company of Marlborough, Massachusetts around 1940. The front of the battery box bears the seal of the Bureau of Mines with the text “Permissible Electric Cap Lamp, Approval No. 20.” The battery box is without its cover, cord, and cap lamp. This object belonged to mining lamp inventor Grant Wheat’s personal collection that was donated to the museum in 1962.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
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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
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-8193
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: battery, lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 in; 18.415 cm x 13.97 cm x 5.08 cm