Wheat Lamp Mold
notes: label: Description
content: This is a wooden lamp mold used for casting the rubber headpiece of the Wheat lamp. Grant Wheat’s battery-powered electric lamp was given approval by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1919 and was manufactured by the Koehler Manufacturing Company into the 21st century. This mold was part of Grant Wheat’s personal collection that was donated to the museum in 1962.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: Grant Wheat Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary R. Wheat
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8195B
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8195B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mold, lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 8.255 cm x 8.2042 cm x 9.144 cm