Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
name: label: patentee
content: Trimble, George W.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by George W. Trimble of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania that received patent number 75,603 on March 17, 1868. The patent claims as its invention “providing the tube or spout of the lamp with a simple and novel device for feeding the wick to the flame, instead of pushing it out of the tube by striking the bottom of the lamp on something.” The invention can be seen in the spout of lamp.
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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: Natural Resources
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-9754
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9754
label: accession number
content: 88881
label: patent number
content: 075603
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 in x 3 in; 8.89 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm