Oldham & Son Electric Cap Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This is an Oldham & Son Ltd. electric cap lamp made in Denton, Manchester, England around 1911 or 1912. The lamp operates like many electric cap lamps, with the battery in a locking metal case worn on the miner’s belt with a cord that connects to the cap lamp worn on the miner’s helmet.
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 lamp was the 38th object in his chronological development of underground lighting, with the note that it was the "First cap lamp built by the Oldham Co. in England in 1911 or 1912.”
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-8155
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8155
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, cap, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: battery: 6 in x 4 5/8 in x 2 in; 15.24 cm x 11.684 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: wire: 26 in; 66.04 cm
label: Measurements
content: light: 2 5/16 in x 2 5/16 in x 2 5/16 in; 5.842 cm x 5.842 cm x 5.842 cm