Rosin Torch
notes: label: Description
content: This pine knot torch is similar to the torch seen in AG*MHI MN 8182, with the addition of fibrous material at one end.
label: Description
content: Electric cap lamp inventor Grant Wheat’s personal collection of mining lamps was donated to the museum in 1962. Many of these objects were depicted in his “Story of Underground Lighting” published in the “Proceedings of the Illinois Mining Institute” in 1945. This torch was his second example of the chronological development of underground lighting, of which he wrote, “It was further discovered that by wrapping some fibrous material on the stick and then dipping it into pitch or rosin a torch was made producing a flame which would last still longer.”
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-8183
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8183
objectType: label: Object Name
content: torch, pitch-rosin
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 2 in; 63.5 cm x 5.08 cm