Oil-Wick Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1880-06-22
name: label: patentee
content: Gough, Edward
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Edward Gough, of Allentown, Pennsylvania that received patent number 229,117 on June 22, 1880. In his patent filing, Gough claimed as his invention “an improvement in lamps with the combination of a cast-metal body or can with a neck, provided with studs, of the cast metal cover, having notches and interior annular groove” constructed to secure the top to the lamp. The chain is usually attached to the top so it wouldn’t get separated from its lamp.
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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-9742
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9742
label: patent number
content: 229117
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, oil, hand held, miner's
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: 5 1/4 in x 8 in x 3 in; 13.335 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm