Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model

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Object Details

patentee

Pearce, Henry F.

Description (Brief)

This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Henry F. Pearce of Hyde Park, Pennsylvania that received patent number 258,803 on May 30, 1882. Pearce claimed as his invention “a cap for a miner's lamp having a lining arranged to form a space and having the annularly-located perforations, whereby none of the perforations in the lining directly communicate with the vent in the cap” to prevent the escape of the oil through the vent and the closing of the vent by the gumming of oil or sediment.

Location

Currently not on view

patent date

1882-05-30

ID Number

AG.MHI-MN-9746

accession number

088881

catalog number

MHI-MN-9746

patent number

258802

Object Name

lamp, oil, cap, miner's

mining lamp

Object Type

Patent Model

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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-e0c9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_872093