Miner's Safety lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Davy lamp was made by J.W. Queen & Company of Philadelphia in the late 19th century. Sir Humphry Davy developed one of many safety lamp designs. He discovered that if the holes in the metallic gauze enveloping the flame had a depth greater than a diameter, the flame would not pass through. This prevented the combustible gases (called firedamp) from exploding, as would happen with the open flames earlier oil-wick cap lamps.
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: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Dewey, Frederic P.. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.059272
label: catalog number
content: 59272
label: accession number
content: 15369
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Name
content: lamp, safety, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 4 in x 4 in; 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm