Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
name: label: patentee
content: Davies, John O.
label: patentee
content: Jones, John O.
label: patentee
content: Thomas, Timothy
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John O. Davies, John O. Jones, and Timothy Thomas of Plymouth, Pennsylvania that received patent number 220,582 on October 14, 1879. The patent claims as its invention “a miner's lamp consisting of an outer shell or cup, having a wick-tube and main wick combined with an oil-reservoir adapted to fit within said outer shell or cup, and having a perforated screw-cap in its bottom through which a supplemental feeding-wick passes.” The lamp kept the oil in a separate interior container to help prevent combustion.
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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-9752
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9752
label: accession number
content: 88881
label: patent number
content: 220582
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: 3 in x 4 in x 2 in; 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm x 5.08 cm