Object Details
- Description
- This is an Oldham Hewers electric hand lamp manufactured by Oldham & Son Ltd. of Denton, Manchester, England during the 1930s. The lamp consists of a lower metal bonnet that slid over the lamp’s battery, and a light bulb at the top that is encased in a ridged glass cylinder. Museum records indicate that this lamp was presented to electric cap lamp inventor Grant Wheat by Mr. Harry Holt, in 1935. Oldham & Son was a large battery manufacturer in England who licensed Grant Wheat’s electric lamp designs in 1935 for manufacture and distribution in the United Kingdom.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mary R. Wheat
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8136
- accession number
- 239148
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8136
- Object Name
- lamp, hand, mining
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in; 24.13 cm
- Related Publication
- Pohs, Henry A.. Early Underground Lamps
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Grant Wheat Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_872665
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-d824-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
