Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1877-03-20
name: label: patentee
content: Weinel, Josiah J.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Josiah J. Weinel of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, that received patent number 188,703 on March 20, 1877. Weinel claimed as his invention “a miner's lamp with an inner spout that has a thread for securing itself in the spout, with perforations for supplying air to the burner and returning oil to the font.”
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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-9749
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9749
label: patent number
content: 188705
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, cap, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 8.89 cm x 4.445 cm