Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Object Details
- patentee
- Winfield, William C.
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick cap lamp is a patent model constructed by William C. Winfield of Hubbard, Ohio that received patent number 115,143 on May 23, 1871. Winfield’s claim in the patent filing is a miner's lamp with “a new article of manufacture, viz., a miner's lamp, provided with a screw-cap constructed, arranged, and operating with relation to the body of the lamp.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- patent date
- 1871-05-23
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9737
- accession number
- 088881
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9737
- patent number
- 115143
- Object Name
- lamp, oil, cap, miner's
- mining lamp
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 9.525 cm x 3.81 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_872090
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-aeb9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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