Carbide Hand Lamps/Columbia Mod C Front

Carbide Hand Lamps

Columbia Mod C Front.jpg - COLUMBIA MODEL C AUTOMATIC - Early carriage lamp modified to mining lamp, ca 1900-13, marked on side COLUMBIA MODEL C AUTOMATIC and on other side HINE-WATT MFG. CO. CHICAGO USA, 7 ¾ in tall to handle, 3 ¼ in base dia, perfect glass lens and fish tail burner tip, green jewel on one side and red jewel on other side of lens housing, brass lamp body, see Thorpe, Carbide Light, p 233 for photo and advertising image of lamp (Among the earliest carbide lamps for use underground was the adapted "Columbia Model C" manufactured by the Hine-Watt Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, IL. In the business of manufacturing acetylene lamps for bicycles, the company produced a number of lamps with a handle instead of a bicycle handle bar attachment. These modified lamps were in use by miners as early as 1904. Sern P. Watt was awarded 3 patents from 1899 to 1900 for carbide lamps including the lamp shown here and is credited as an early pioneer of carbide lamps in the US. The Hine-Watt Co. was in business for a time before 1900 to as late as 1916, at which time it was either sold or ceased operations. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, pp 74-75)

Columbia Mod C Front | COLUMBIA MODEL C AUTOMATIC - Early carriage lamp modified to mining lamp, ca 1900-13, marked on side COLUMBIA MODEL C AUTOMATIC and on other side HINE-WATT MFG. CO. CHICAGO USA, 7 ¾ in tall to handle, 3 ¼ in base dia, perfect glass lens and fish tail burner tip, green jewel on one side and red jewel on other side of lens housing, brass lamp body, see Thorpe, Carbide Light, p 233 for photo and advertising image of lamp (Among the earliest carbide lamps for use underground was the adapted "Columbia Model C" manufactured by the Hine-Watt Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, IL. In the business of manufacturing acetylene lamps for bicycles, the company produced a number of lamps with a handle instead of a bicycle handle bar attachment. These modified lamps were in use by miners as early as 1904. Sern P. Watt was awarded 3 patents from 1899 to 1900 for carbide lamps including the lamp shown here and is credited as an early pioneer of carbide lamps in the US. The Hine-Watt Co. was in business for a time before 1900 to as late as 1916, at which time it was either sold or ceased operations. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, pp 74-75)

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