Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1869-05-25
name: label: patentee
content: Dowd, W. G.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by W. G. Dowd of Scranton, Pennsylvania that received patent number 90,434, on May 25, 1869. The patent filing is for the wick raiser on this lamp seen on the outside of the spout. Dowd claimed as his invention “a wire bent over the outer edge of the wicktube with its outer portion sliding in the guide, and its inner portion bent to form an eye to which are hung the fork,” so as to raise the wick by the sliding of the wire.
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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-9744
label: accession number
content: 88881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9744
label: patent number
content: 090434
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, oil, cap, miner's
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 in; 7.62 cm x 8.255 cm x 5.08 cm