Miner's Electric Cap Lamp
Miner's Electric Cap Lamp
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- Description (Brief)
- Manufactured in 1915, this Edison Electric Cap Lamp was an early cap lamp models. The Model "C" battery is larger than later designs, and the cord is protected at both ends by a flexible steel cover. The battery could power the six-candlepower lamp for 12 hours and was recharged at the end of a miner’s shift.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lamp, cap, miner's
- mining lamp
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8039
- accession number
- 236603
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8039
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- Work and Industry: Mining
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- Mining Lamps
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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