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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 John Q. Lee of Plymouth, Pennsylvania that received patent number 176,650, dated April 25, 1876. The patent claims as its invention “A lamp-top composed of two thicknesses, and united by having one piece turned up and over the projecting flanges of the other, thereby dispensing with the use of solder.” A soldered top could come undone from the heat of the flame.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineOil-Wick Miner’s Lamp Patent Model. 1876-04-25. Lee, John Q.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
