Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Josiah J. Weinel of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, that received patent number 188,703 on March 20, 1877. Weinel claimed as his invention “a miner's lamp with an inner spout that has a thread for securing itself in the spout, with perforations for supplying air to the burner and returning oil to the font.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lamp, cap, mining
- mining lamp
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- patent date
- 1877-03-20
- patentee
- Weinel, Josiah J.
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 8.89 cm x 4.445 cm
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9749
- accession number
- 088881
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9749
- patent number
- 188705
- 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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