Object Details
- Description
- This safety lamp was manufactured by the Wolf Safety Lamp Company during the early 20th century. The lamp is called a safety lamp because it can be used safely in the presence of flammable gas. This lamp was one of the Wolf Safety Lamp Company’s most popular designs. The safety lamp employs a glass enclosure around the flame, wire gauze on the top-interior, and a metal bonnet exterior. The lamp’s flame and fuel reservoir has a magnetic lock so that it could only be opened and refilled outside the mine.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mary R. Wheat
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8129
- accession number
- 239148
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8129
- Object Name
- lamp, safety, mining
- Measurements
- overall: 9 11/16 in; 24.638 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_872669
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-d828-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
