Miner's Electric Cap Lamp
- Description (Brief)
- This Model "K" lamp was manufactured in 1931 by the Edison Storage Battery Company. The Edison Cap Lamp consisted of a battery encased in a self-locking steel case worn on the miner’s belt. A flexible cord traveled to the cap lamp, and its entrance into the battery was protected by a flexible steel cover. The battery could power the six-candlepower lamps for 12 hours and was recharged at the end of a miner’s shift. This lamp was used by the Greenwood Mining Company, and is stamped number 506.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lamp, cap, miner's
- mining lamp
- ID Number
- AG*MHI-MN-8920
- accession number
- 260126
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8920
- subject
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- Mining Lamps
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- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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