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Oil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model
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This oil-wick lamp is a patent model constructed by Henry F. Pearce of Hyde Park, Pennsylvania that received patent number 258,803 on May 30, 1882. Pearce claimed as his invention “a cap for a miner's lamp having a lining arranged to form a space and having the annularly-located perforations, whereby none of the perforations in the lining directly communicate with the vent in the cap” to prevent the escape of the oil through the vent and the closing of the vent by the gumming of oil or sediment.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineOil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model. 1882-05-30. Pearce, Henry F.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
