Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
Object Details
- patentee
- Trimble, George W.
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by George W. Trimble of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania that received patent number 75,603 on March 17, 1868. The patent claims as its invention “providing the tube or spout of the lamp with a simple and novel device for feeding the wick to the flame, instead of pushing it out of the tube by striking the bottom of the lamp on something.” The invention can be seen in the spout of lamp.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9754
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9754
- accession number
- 88881
- patent number
- 075603
- Object Name
- lamp, mining
- mining lamp
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 5 in x 3 in; 8.89 cm x 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm
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- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_872109
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-e0d8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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