Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Koehler Manufacturing Company produced this battery-powered cap lamp during the first half of the 20th century. Inventor Grant Wheat designed this lamp, leading to this type of lamp being called a “Wheat Lamp.” The battery is encased in a self-locking red plastic case worn on the miner’s belt. A flexible cord traveled from the battery to the lamp, which was worn on a mining cap. The red case reads “Wheat/Koehler MFG. CO.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Koehler Manufacturing Co.
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8953
- accession number
- 260128
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8953
- Object Name
- lamp, cap, miner's
- mining lamp
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_872030
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-ca85-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
