Oil-Wick Lamp Patent Model
Oil-Wick Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Edward Gough, of Allentown, Pennsylvania that received patent number 229,117 on June 22, 1880. In his patent filing, Gough claimed as his invention “an improvement in lamps with the combination of a cast-metal body or can with a neck, provided with studs, of the cast metal cover, having notches and interior annular groove” constructed to secure the top to the lamp. The chain is usually attached to the top so it wouldn’t get separated from its lamp.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lamp, oil, hand held, miner's
- mining lamp
- mining lamp, patent model
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- patent date
- 1880-06-22
- patentee
- Gough, Edward
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/4 in x 8 in x 3 in; 13.335 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9742
- accession number
- 088881
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9742
- patent number
- 229117
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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