Miner’s Safety Lamp Patent Model

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Description (Brief)

This safety lamp is a patent model constructed by Nicolas Louis Beaufils and Jacques Rexroth of Paris, France that received patent number 95,184 on September 28, 1869. The inventors claim in the patent filing that whenever an operation is to be performed on the lamp such as filling fuel, trimming the wick, or any action that would expose the flame to the air, the lamp will be forcibly extinguished.

ID Number

AG.MHI-MN-9739

catalog number

MHI-MN-9739

accession number

88881

patent number

095184

Object Name

lamp, safety, mining

mining lamp

Object Type

Patent Model

Measurements

overall: 13 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 34.29 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm

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Work and Industry: Mining

Mining Lamps

Work

Industry & Manufacturing

Natural Resources

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-ee42-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_872333