Miner's Carbide Lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This lamp is a horizontal tank Grier with an S-shaped water lever, manufactured around 1916. The Grier Brothers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania began manufacturing carbide mining lamps in 1911. Their finances took a fatal blow in 1922 when the Supreme Court ruled against them for patent infringement in Baldwin & Simmons v. Grier Brothers. By 1924, the Gem Manufacturing Company had bought the Griers' stock of mining 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: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Walter Hough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-9798
label: accession number
content: 066474
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MH-9798
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 11.43 cm x 6.35 cm x 8.255 cm