Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1879-09-09
name: label: patentee
content: Fleming, John
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John Fleming of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania that received patent number 219,352 on July 24, 1879. Fleming claimed as his invention “a miner's lamp provided with a hard-metal bottom having a flange that supports the lower edge of the body of the lamp, and the flange bearing against the inner wall of the body.” Miner’s would strike the bottom of their lamps against a hard surface to raise and lower the wick, and this extra bottom prevented damage to the lamp’s body.
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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-9747
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9747
label: patent number
content: 219352
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: 2 1/4 in x 3 in x 2 in; 5.715 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm