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- Vapor Lamp, circa 1860 - Vapor lamps burned naphtha, a substance similar to gasoline, which burned brightly under pressure and contact with air. Used for general illumination, this stylish lamp would have been used in a public space or sat on a mantle in a home.
- circa 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Vapor Lamp, circa 1860
Vapor lamps burned naphtha, a substance similar to gasoline, which burned brightly under pressure and contact with air. Used for general illumination, this stylish lamp would have been used in a public space or sat on a mantle in a home.
- Sylvic Gas Light, B. Franklin Coston, Patentee, Washington City, D.C. N.B., Gas Light Generator, 1845 -
- 1845
- Collections - Artifact
Sylvic Gas Light, B. Franklin Coston, Patentee, Washington City, D.C. N.B., Gas Light Generator, 1845
- Patent Model of Gas Burner, 1878 - From 1790 to 1880, the U.S. Patent Office required applicants to submit a miniature model along with diagrams and written descriptions detailing the operation of their invention. Patent models could be no larger than 12" by 12" by 12". Though they were usually not operational, these models helped explain an inventor's idea and protect it from competitors.
- June 11, 1878
- Collections - Artifact
Patent Model of Gas Burner, 1878
From 1790 to 1880, the U.S. Patent Office required applicants to submit a miniature model along with diagrams and written descriptions detailing the operation of their invention. Patent models could be no larger than 12" by 12" by 12". Though they were usually not operational, these models helped explain an inventor's idea and protect it from competitors.
- A.L. Bogart Static Generator, Used by the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, circa 1875 -
- circa 1875
- Collections - Artifact
A.L. Bogart Static Generator, Used by the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, circa 1875
- Electric Chandelier, 1870 -
- 1870
- Collections - Artifact
Electric Chandelier, 1870
- Miniature Bank of Light Fixtures, Displayed at the New York World's Fair, 1939 -
- 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Miniature Bank of Light Fixtures, Displayed at the New York World's Fair, 1939
- Patent Model of Safety Gas Burner, 1904 -
- November 29, 1904
- Collections - Artifact
Patent Model of Safety Gas Burner, 1904
- Trade Card for Lighting Supplies, Perfection Lighting Co., 1890-1900 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1890-1900
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Trade Card for Lighting Supplies, Perfection Lighting Co., 1890-1900
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Gas Chandelier, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Gas Chandelier, circa 1880
- Kerosene Chandelier, 1885-1900 -
- 1885-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Kerosene Chandelier, 1885-1900