Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1883-07-04
name: label: patentee
content: Deeds, John B.
label: patentee
content: Mack, William
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John B. Deeds and William Mack of Terre Haute, Indiana that received patent number 281,846 on July 24, 1883. Deeds and Mack developed a lamp with an “oil tight lid.” The invention is described as “having its top or opening made slightly flaring, in combination with the hinged lid and the supplemental lid or disk with a packing of cork between them, and having holes therein opposite to each other, which communicate with a corresponding opening in the cork for the purpose of ventilation.”
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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-9748
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9748
label: accession number
content: 88881
label: patent number
content: 281846
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 in; 6.985 cm x 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm