A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene lamps have a wick...
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of kerosene through extracting and purifying petroleum and then converted it into lamp fuel. The Chinese made use of petroleum for lighting lamps and...
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The Tilley lamp is a kerosene pressure lamp. In 1813, John Tilley invented the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe. In 1818, William Henry Tilley, gas fitters, was...
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lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form. These in turn were replaced by the kerosene lamp in about 1850. In small towns...
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other light sources like candles or kerosene lamps. Solar lamps have a lower operating cost than kerosene lamps because renewable energy from the sun...
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Petromax (redirect from Petromax lamp)
their pressurised kerosene lamp (US: kerosene lamp) that uses a incandescent mantle. They are as synonymous with the paraffin lamp in Continental Europe...
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Look up LAMP or lamp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lamp, Lamps or LAMP may refer to: Oil lamp, using an oil-based fuel source Kerosene lamp, using...
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(disambiguation) Kerosene lamp Pressurised-burner stoves Naphtha This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kerosene. If an internal...
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List of light sources (section Lamps)
generating bright light when heated by a flame Kerosene lamp – Type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel Lantern – Portable lighting devices...
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Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia Lantern in Wuppertal, Germany Station kerosene lamp at Rizhsky station railway museum, Moscow, Russia, 19th c. The derived...
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to distill kerosene from seep crude oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853)...
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Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) examples A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent...
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as theatrical footlights. It was the lamp of choice until about 1850 when kerosene lamps were introduced. Kerosene was cheaper than vegetable oil, it produced...
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Street light (redirect from Street lamp)
statistics. Kerosene streetlamps were invented by Polish pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, in 1853. His kerosene lamps were later...
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Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
Betty lamp, butter lamp, carbide lamp, gas lighting, kerosene lamp, oil lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas mantle Safety lamps: Davy lamp and...
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Most kerosene heaters produce between 3.3 and 6.8 kilowatts (11,000 and 23,000 BTU/h). A kerosene heater operates much like a large kerosene lamp. A circular...
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A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties...
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early lighthouses, the light source was a kerosene lamp or, earlier, an animal or vegetable oil Argand lamp, and the lenses rotated by a weight driven...
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Gas mantle (redirect from Mantle lamp)
Candoluminescence Coleman lantern Clamond basket Gas lighting Kerosene lamp Aladdin Mantle Lamp Co. H. F. Ivey (1974). "Candoluminescence and radical-excited...
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Aladdin (containers) (redirect from Mantle Lamp Company)
International, LLC of Seattle, Washington and Aladdin continues to be a kerosene lamps and wicks products brand and is owned by Hattersley Aladdin Ltd of the...
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the latter was subsequently adopted. Another signalling lamp was the Begbie lamp, a kerosene lamp with a lens to focus the light over a long distance. During...
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Coal oil (redirect from Coal oil lamps)
9 January 2011. Maris, Clarence (1921). "Lesson 4, The Coal Oil or Kerosene Lamp.". Dangers and chemistry of fire, for grammar schools. Columbus, Ohio:...
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GravityLight (category Types of lamp)
gravity-powered lamp manufactured until 2019. It was designed by the company Deciwatt for use in developing or third-world nations, as a replacement for kerosene lamps...
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which was then distilled. Rāzi also gave the first description of a kerosene lamp using crude mineral oil, referring to it as the "naffatah". The streets...
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kerosene lamps and lanterns. During the 1860s, the major glass factory in West Virginia could not produce enough lamps to meet demand. Kerosine lamps...
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how to distill kerosene from seep oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853)...
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The Autoluxlamp, a kerosene lamp manufactured by Lux and used in railway stations around the world in the early 20th century...
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sun between them, and the firm's initials of E&G. In the beginning kerosene lamps along with burners, as well as cookers for fluid (wood alcohol, paraffin)...
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A Carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C2H2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2)...
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realizing what has happened, Ada pours kerosene into the cellar and throws herself onto it with a kerosene lamp, causing an inferno that burns the barn...
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