Object Details
- Description
- This miner’s safety lamp was made by an unknown manufacturer during the late 19th or early 20th century. The lamp is called a safety lamp because it can be used safely in the presence of flammable gas. The lamp features a glass enclosure, wire gauze on the top interior, and a metal bonnet exterior.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Mary R. Wheat
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-8128
- accession number
- 239148
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-8128
- Object Name
- lamp, hand, 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_872670
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-c7bf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
