Skullgard Protective Cap Type K
Skullgard Protective Cap Type K
Previous
Next
Usage conditions apply
- Description
- Bakelite helmet with inscription with reading “M.S.A. Skullgard / Protective Hat - Type K / Size 7 ¼.” The Mine Safety Appliances Company was established in Pittsburgh in 1914, two years after a particularly deadly mine disaster in West Virginia. Its first product, developed with the help of Thomas A. Edison, was an electric cap lamp. The firm introduced the term “Skullgard” in 1932.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- helmet
- Bakelite Helmet
- Date made
- ca. 1935
- date made
- ca 1935
- maker
- Mine Safety Appliances Company
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 26.5 cm x 30.1 cm; 5 1/2 in x 10 7/16 in x 11 7/8 in
- overall: 6 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in x 12 in; 16.51 cm x 26.67 cm x 30.48 cm
- ID Number
- 1981.0976.41
- catalog number
- 1981.0976.41
- accession number
- 1981.0976
- Credit Line
- Gift of Union Carbide Corporation
- subject
- Safety
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
Nominate this object for photography.
Our collection database is a work in progress. We may update this record based on further research and review. Learn more about our approach to sharing our collection online.
If you would like to know how you can use content on this page, see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use. If you need to request an image for publication or other use, please visit Rights and Reproductions.
