Miner’s Safety Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1878-10-15
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This safety lamp is a patent model constructed by William Roberts of Cincinnati, Ohio that received patent number 209,082 on October 15, 1878. In his patent filing, Roberts claimed “the combination of the transparent shell, surrounding the flame and provided with a cap or shell, and the wire-gauze chimneys, mounted upon said cap or shell, and arranged one within the other, so as to form an annular space or chamber between them.”
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-9740
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9740
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: patent number
content: 209082
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, safety, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp, patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 8.89 cm x 8.89 cm