You have seen them in antique stores, especially in mining towns: tarnished brass cylinders with a reflective dish on one side and a bracket for clipping them onto a ...

After around 1915, miners debated which technology they favored to light their work underground, a carbide lamp or a battery light. Both were superior to candles and oil lamps that would blow out when ...

I first saw carbide lamps in the tool exhibit in the Vigo County Historical Museum. I did not know what they were — light bulb sockets, perhaps? So I did some research and found that the carbide lamps ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This lamp was made by the Dewar ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This mining lamp is a “Guy’s Dropper” ...