Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This is a carbide mining lamp manufactured by the Friemann and Wolf Company, of Zwickau, Germany around 1910. The Friemann and Wolf Company was a prominent lamp manufacturer that exported lamps to the U.S. until World War I, when buying German items became unpopular. Worn on a miner's cap, the reflector behind the flame cast a wide range of light, improving the miner’s peripheral vision.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- Georgia Stratton Ziffzer
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 5 in x 4 3/4 in; 20.32 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.065 cm
- Object Name
- lamp, acetylene, mining
- mining lamp
