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    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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  • 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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    Petromax (redirect from Petromax lamp)
    pressurised paraffin lamp (US: kerosene lamp) that uses a mantle. They are as synonymous with the paraffin lamp in Continental Europe as Tilley lamps are in Britain...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    pp. 550–555. doi:10.1109/EPC.2007.4520391. 200 0000+ solar powered kerosene-lamp replacements assisted by aid agencies: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/mpgvm...
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    An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient...
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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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    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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    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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    Street light (redirect from Street lamp)
    A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    A germicidal lamp (also known as disinfection lamp or sterilizer lamp) is an electric light that produces ultraviolet C (UVC) light. This short-wave ultraviolet...
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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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    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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  • Salvaje enters the ranch house through a window. Sam blows out the kerosene lamp in order to hide in a dark corner. Sam shoots at him with a rifle and...
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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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    has a very successful solar lamp program. A solar lamp costs about the same as a few months of kerosene for a kerosene lamp, and provides many years of...
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