Miner's Carbide Lamp
Miner's Carbide Lamp
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- Description (Brief)
- This lamp was manufactured by the Justrite Manufacturing Company, in Chicago, Illinois in the first half of the 20th century. This lamp is notable for its reflector, a “matchless” design with a lighter built into the reflector to spark and ignite the acetylene gas. Instead of having a polished brass reflector like many lamps, this reflector is aluminum.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lamp, carbide, cap, mining
- mining lamp
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 4 in x 4 in; 11.43 cm x 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MI-1114
- accession number
- 1978.0288
- catalog number
- MHI-MI-1114
- Credit Line
- Ruth Parks in memory of Roland Parks
- 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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