Miner's Safety Lamp
- Description (Brief)
- This safety lamp was manufactured in the latter half of the 19th century by J.W. Queen & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This Clanny style safety lamp employs a wire gauze and a glass globe surrounding the wick to protect the flame. Safety lamps were invented in the early 19th century, and are used to this day for gas detection, even as mine lighting has been replaced by electric lights.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lamp, safety, mining
- mining lamp
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.89 cm
- ID Number
- AG*059266
- catalog number
- 059266
- accession number
- 15369
- subject
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- Work
- Mining Lamps
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- listed
- Dewey, Frederic P.. Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum
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