Badger Brass Solarclipse headlight

Creator

Badger Brass Manufacturing Company

Date

• ca. 1911

Summary

• A close-up of a circa 1911 Badger Brass Solarclipse headlight for use with motor vehicles, showing its lead glass lens mirror reflector and convex lens.
• In 1898, four businessmen, Charles N. Frost, George A. Yule, Richard Welles, and E. L. Williams, founded the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc. where acetylene bicycle lamps (marketed under the Solar trade name) were produced until 1917. Production rates hit an all time low that year, and the C. M. Hall Company of Detroit, Michigan bought out the business in November 1917.