Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
name: label: patentee
content: Seybold, William
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by William Seybold of McKeesport, Pennsylvania that received patent number 90,963 on June 8, 1869. Seybold claimed as his invention “extending the wick-tube upwards, within the lamp-chamber, nearly to the top of the lamp” and “extending the exterior portion of the wick-tube above the top of the lamp” in order to keep lighter oils from making their way up a normal spout due to the motions of a miner’s head.
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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-9745
label: accession number
content: 088881
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-9745
label: patent number
content: 90963
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, oil, cap, miner's
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 in; 8.89 cm x 8.89 cm x 5.08 cm