Natural Resources
The natural resources collections offer centuries of evidence about how Americans have used the bounty of the American continent and coastal waters. Artifacts related to flood control, dam construction, and irrigation illustrate the nation's attempts to manage the natural world. Oil-drilling, iron-mining, and steel-making artifacts show the connection between natural resources and industrial strength.
Forestry is represented by saws, axes, a smokejumper's suit, and many other objects. Hooks, nets, and other gear from New England fisheries of the late 1800s are among the fishing artifacts, as well as more recent acquisitions from the Pacific Northwest and Chesapeake Bay. Whaling artifacts include harpoons, lances, scrimshaw etchings in whalebone, and several paintings of a whaler's work at sea. The modern environmental movement has contributed buttons and other protest artifacts on issues from scenic rivers to biodiversity.
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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by William Eynon and Richard C. Cook of Hyde Park, Pennsylvania that received patent number 167,323 on August 31, 1875. Eynon and Cook had three parts to the patent. The first claim was “around the font is a cup which strengthens the tube or spout, and catches the oil that drops out between the spout and wick.” The second is “on the rear side of the reservoir is secured a curved cap-piece which prevents the lamp swinging on the miner's head.” The third is “an ordinary lid or cover for the reservoir, and in the center of this cover is inserted a spout which allows of the lamp being used for oiling machinery or other places when desired.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- patentee
- Eynon, William
- Cook, Richard C.
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9751
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9751
- accession number
- 88881
- patent number
- 167323
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John O. Davies, John O. Jones, and Timothy Thomas of Plymouth, Pennsylvania that received patent number 220,582 on October 14, 1879. The patent claims as its invention “a miner's lamp consisting of an outer shell or cup, having a wick-tube and main wick combined with an oil-reservoir adapted to fit within said outer shell or cup, and having a perforated screw-cap in its bottom through which a supplemental feeding-wick passes.” The lamp kept the oil in a separate interior container to help prevent combustion.
- patentee
- Davies, John O.
- Jones, John O.
- Thomas, Timothy
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9752
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9752
- accession number
- 88881
- patent number
- 220582
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by William C. Winfield of Hubbard, Ohio that received patent number 126,606 on May 7, 1872. The patent claims as its invention “securing the lid or cap of the ordinary ‘miners' lamp’ to its body through the medium of screw-threads in the cap and on the neck of the lamp, the cap being furnished with an elastic packing-disk, air-chamber, and openings for the ingress of air.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- patent date
- 1872-05-07
- patentee
- Winfield, William C.
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9753
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9753
- accession number
- 088881
- patent number
- 126606
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John B. Deeds and William Mack of Terre Haute, Indiana that received patent number 281,846 on July 24, 1883. Deeds and Mack developed a lamp with an “oil tight lid.” The invention is described as “having its top or opening made slightly flaring, in combination with the hinged lid and the supplemental lid or disk with a packing of cork between them, and having holes therein opposite to each other, which communicate with a corresponding opening in the cork for the purpose of ventilation.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- patent date
- 1883-07-04
- patentee
- Deeds, John B.
- Mack, William
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9748
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9748
- accession number
- 88881
- patent number
- 281846
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by James C. Moore of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, that received patent number 180,258 on July 25, 1876. Moore claimed as his invention “a miner's lamp, with a spring lid-holding device.” The device kept the font’s lid closed during the miner’s workday agitations.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- patent date
- 1876-07-25
- patentee
- Moore, James C.
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9750
- accession number
- 088881
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9750
- patent number
- 180258
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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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
- patent date
- 1877-03-20
- patentee
- Weinel, Josiah J.
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9749
- accession number
- 088881
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9749
- patent number
- 188705
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by John Q. Lee of Plymouth, Pennsylvania that received patent number 176,650, dated April 25, 1876. The patent claims as its invention “A lamp-top composed of two thicknesses, and united by having one piece turned up and over the projecting flanges of the other, thereby dispensing with the use of solder.” A soldered top could come undone from the heat of the flame.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- patent date
- 1876-04-25
- patentee
- Lee, John Q.
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9755
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9755
- accession number
- 088881
- patent number
- 176650
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
