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  Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp.JPG - BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 1, double lens, belt generator and cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414 (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp apparently had some use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The company moved to Chicago and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68) SEE THE KRUSCHKE PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC  
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Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp | BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 1, double lens, belt generator and cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414 (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp apparently had some use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The company moved to Chicago and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68) SEE THE KRUSCHKE PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC Download Original Image
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