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Lamp, Fuel


Title	Lamp, Fuel
Coverage / Year	1840 to 1880
Description	A heavy cast iron lamp. It is cylindrical with a two wick holes on the top on a slotted panel which includes a knob to move aside that panel for filling. The lamp is on a long iron handle which moves back and forth.
Interpretation	This lamp was probably used in some industrial or manufacturing sphere where a heavy duty lamp on a long handle would be useful. It could either be a whale oil or camphene lamp.
Lesson Plans / Themes	American Communities in History; Communities and Geography; How we learn about communities; Whaling Slide Show; Inventions Multimedia Time Line; School Museum; Introduction of artifacts as a primary source; What's That Relic?; Settling in the Midwest;
Learning Standards	16 History; 18 Social Systems; 13 Science, Technology and Society;
Author or Creator	Unknown
Subject / Keywords	Oil lamp; Light; Lighting device; Whaling; Whale; Whales; Whale oil; Camphene
Collection Publisher	Early American Museum
Further Information	For any further information related to this record, please contact the Collection Publisher. See http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc for more information about this project.
Rights Management Statement	http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc/conditions.htm
Resource Identifier	1968.001.0987
CONTENTdm file name	64050172422004_68.1.0987.jpg