Model "A" Wheat Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Wheat Type “A” electric cap lamp manufactured by the Koehler Manufacturing Company of Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1917. Grant Wheat designed an electric cap lamp (often called the Wheat lamp) that was manufactured by the Koehler Manufacturing Company, who has continued to manufacture Wheat brand lamps into the 21st century. The Wheat lamp consists of a battery encased in a locking metal case worn on the miner’s belt. A flexible cord traveled to the cap lamp, which would be worn on the miner’s helmet. This lamp belonged to Grant Wheat’s personal collection that was donated to the museum in 1962.
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-8152
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, wheat, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: battery: 7 13/16 in x 5 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 19.812 cm x 13.716 cm x 6.35 cm
label: Measurements
content: wire: 37 1/2 in; 95.25 cm
label: Measurements
content: light: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in; 8.89 cm x 8.89 cm x 10.922 cm