Miner’s Safety Lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Joris Company made this safety lamp in Liege, Belgium during the 20th century. The measured markings along the lamp’s window indicate that this safety lamp was used to measure the amount of methane in the air, without igniting it. In the presence of methane, a blue "cap" would appear on the flame, with the height of the flame corresponding to the amount of methane in the air, easily measured by the markings built into the lamp.
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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: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Board of Trustees of Lafayette College
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8759
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8759
label: accession number
content: 265669
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, safety, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 46.99 cm x 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm