Object Details
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- inventor
- Whitney, Levi H.
- patent date
- 1868-02-25
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- cotton (wick material)
- Measurements
- overall-long kindler: 1 1/8 in x 21 1/2 in x 2 in; 2.8575 cm x 54.61 cm x 5.08 cm
- overall-short kindler: 1 1/8 in x 12 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 30.48 cm x 2.8575 cm
- Object Name
- kindler, fire
- Other Terms
- Fire Kindler, Pair of; Fire Making Apparatus
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