Object Details
- inventor
- Dick, Andrew
- Description (Brief)
- Dick’s improvement in “Signal-Lights for Locomotives” included a combination of a stationary and a moveable headlight which could also identify the train name or number.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1871
- patent date
- 1872-07-23
- ID Number
- DL.331332
- catalog number
- 331332
- patent number
- 129,797
- accession number
- 88881
- Object Name
- lamp
- lamp, signal
- Object Type
- Lighting Devices
- Patent Model
- Lighting Devices
- Other Terms
- lamp; Lighting Devices; Whale Oil
- Physical Description
- iron, tinned sheet (lantern housing; lamp body; burner tube material)
- paint (exterior decoration material)
- glass (face plate material)
- brass (number bar; pulleys; burner cap and collar material)
- string (shade cords material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 cm x 13.1 cm x 11 cm; 8 9/32 in x 5 5/32 in x 4 11/32 in
- associated place
- Canada: Ontarian, Hamilton
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Communications
- Work
- Transportation
- Invention and the Patent Model
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Patent Models
- Railroads
- Record ID
- nmah_311571
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-82d8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
