CEAG Standard Lamp

Description:

This is a Standard Lamp manufactured by the CEAG Company (Concordia Elektrizitäts Aktien Gesellschaft) of Cologne, Germany. In 1912 the British Home Office issued a reward for a better electric safety lamp. The £600 reward was claimed by a German engineer for this lamp design. This lamp is the original Ceag Standard Lamp featuring a safety fuse and bulb suspension. The bulb floats between two springs, and if the glass was broken, the springs would disengage the fuse, rendering all the live parts of the lamp inert and preventing the ignition of flammable gasses. The bottom of the lamp contained the battery inside a steel tube. This lamp was used as a “trip lamp,” hung on the last car of a coal train inside the mine.

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Work and Industry: Mining, Mining Lamps, Work, Industry & Manufacturing, Grant Wheat Collection

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Related Publication: Pohs, Henry A.. Early Underground Lamps

Credit Line: Mary R. Wheat

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: AG.MHI-MN-8138Accession Number: 239148Catalog Number: MHI-MN-8138

Object Name: lamp, trip, mining

Measurements: overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-d823-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_872664

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