Miner’s Safety Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This safety lamp was manufactured by the Wolf Safety Lamp Company during the early 20th century. The lamp is called a safety lamp because it can be used safely in the presence of flammable gas. This lamp was one of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company’s most popular designs. The safety lamp employs a glass enclosure around the flame, wire gauze on the top-interior, and a metal bonnet exterior. The lamp’s flame and fuel reservoir has a magnetic lock so that it could only be opened and refilled outside the mine.
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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Pohs, Henry A.. Early Underground Lamps
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-8129
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8129
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, safety, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 11/16 in; 24.638 cm