Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This lamp is a "mule" lamp, manufactured by the Edison Storage Battery Company around 1920. The lamp would have been attached to a mule's harness to light the way for the driver of the mule in the mines. The battery and lamp are attached, and both are larger than that of cap lamps.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Koehler Manufacturing Company
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8037
- accession number
- 236603
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8037
- Object Name
- lamp, cap, miner's
- mining lamp
- Measurements
- overall: 6 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 17.145 cm x 13.97 cm x 12.065 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_872036
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-ca88-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
