Platt's Oil Hanging Lamp Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1836-10-08
name: label: inventor
content: Platt, Alonzo
notes: label: Description
content: Alonzo Platt received patent number 42 on October 8, 1836, for his design for a chandelier that he called a Union Lamp. The goal of the invention was to provide direct light without the obstruction from a surrounding shell or body, casting perfect light in all directions with no circle, shadow, or shade. Platt sought these direct rays of light from the union of three or more distinct lamps with their own reservoirs. Platt also suggested the form of the fish for the lamp that would serve as oil reservoirs. The wick tubes protruding from the mouth of the fish was the novel invention of the patent, made to open and close with a hinge mechanism to replace the wicks with ease.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.332316
label: catalog number
content: 332316
label: patent number
content: 42
label: accession number
content: 94380
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp
label: Object Type
content: Lighting Devices
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Object Type
content: Lighting Devices
label: Other Terms
content: lamp; Lighting Devices; Oil; Hanging
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: joined at (chairs (3) connector/connecting technique)
label: Physical Description
content: joined at (reservoir (3) connector/connecting technique)
label: Physical Description
content: joined at (ring connector/connecting technique)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (burners (3) material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (chairs (3) material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (hanger material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (reservoir (3) material)