Miner's Safety Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This miner’s safety lamp was made by an unknown manufacturer during the late 19th or early 20th century. The lamp is called a safety lamp because it can be used safely in the presence of flammable gas. The lamp features a glass enclosure, wire gauze on the top interior, and a metal bonnet exterior.
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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Pohs, Henry A.. Early Underground Lamps
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-8128
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, hand, safety, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 11/16 in; 24.638 cm