Object Details
- patentee
- Gable, John H.
- Description (Brief)
- This oil-wick cap lamp is a patent model constructed by John H. Gable of Shamokin, Pennsylvania that received patent number 217,791 on July 22, 1879. Gable’s claim in the patent filing is a miner's lamp “having a rear attachment-hook, a transversely-flattened spout-burner that extends upward from the front of the body, having a small diameter in the plane of the hook, and spreading laterally to form a flame thin at the sides and broad in front.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- AG.MHI-MN-9736
- accession number
- 088881
- catalog number
- MHI-MN-9736
- patent number
- 217791
- Object Name
- lamp, oil, cap, miner's
- mining lamp
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 8.89 cm x 3.81 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mining
- Mining Lamps
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Natural Resources
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_872092
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-aebb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
