Universal Night Light
name: label: maker
content: T. W. Houchin
notes: label: Description
content: Two cardboard boxes with inscriptions that read in part “UNIVERSAL NIGHT LIGHT / ONE DOZEN LIGHTS, WITH GLASS CUPS” and “Houchin’s Patent Specialties / T. W. Houchin, New York City.” Thomas Wynne Houchin (1823-1904) was a merchant in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas W. Houchin, “Improvement in Night Lights,” U.S. Patent 35,154 (May 6, 1862).
label: Description
content: Ad for “Houchin’s Superior Wax Night Lights with Improved Wick Sustainer,” in New York Times (March 18, 1862), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hollis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10759
label: catalog number
content: M-10759
label: accession number
content: 256193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Candle, Night Light
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 28 cm x 6.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 11 in x 2 9/16 in