Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1876-07-25
name: label: patentee
content: Moore, James C.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by James C. Moore of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, that received patent number 180,258 on July 25, 1876. Moore claimed as his invention “a miner's lamp, with a spring lid-holding device.” The device kept the font’s lid closed during the miner’s workday agitations.
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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-9750
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9750
label: patent number
content: 180258
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: 2 3/4 in x 3 in x 2 3/4 in; 6.985 cm x 7.62 cm x 6.985 cm