Open Pottery Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This is an open clay lamp with a flat bottom. The center of the lamp would have been filled with oil, with the wick dipping into the fuel.
label: Description
content: Electric cap lamp inventor Grant Wheat’s personal collection of mining lamps was donated to the museum in 1962. Many of these objects were depicted in his “Story of Underground Lighting” published in the “Proceedings of the Illinois Mining Institute” in 1945. This lamp is third in his chronological development of underground lighting, of which he writes, “The first pottery lamps were made like a clam shell, except that the bottom was flat to prevent tipping over, they used olive oil in the south and some sort of fiber for the wick.”
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-8171
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8171
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, pottery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 11.43 cm