Wheat Lamp Charger
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Model 585 Wheat Lamp charger that was made by the Koehler Manufacturing Company of Marlborough, Massachusetts during the 1930s. Grant Wheat’s electric cap lamp would need to be recharged after about 12 hours of work. While large commercial mining operations would have used large charging racks to power their Wheat lamps, this type of charger would have been used to recharge one lamp at a time. The charger’s label reads “CAUTION: The Power required to operate this charger is designed on name plate. If in doubt consult your Electric Power Company. INDICATOR BULB May not light immediately if battery is dry or over-discharged.” This charger belonged to 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: 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
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-8189
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8189
objectType: label: Object Name
content: charger, lamp, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: charger: 5 1/2 in x 5 3/16 in x 4 in; 13.97 cm x 13.208 cm x 10.16 cm