File:History of Inventions USNM 06 Lamp 02.jpg
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English: No. 13. Lamp of brass. Reservoir mounted on rod and stand ; several spouts. Italian 129,400
No. 14. Lamp. Designed to furnish oil to the wick under pressura Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Colonial period 151,483 No. 15. Lamp of glass having two tubes, for burning lard or whale oil. United States. Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries 1S0,610 No. 16. Lamp, with chimney, draft aroimd the wick, and oil under pressure. Argand's invention. United States 130,667 No. 17. Lamp. " Fluid " or camphene, burned by means of wick and tubes and without chimney. United States 178,189 No. 18. Lamp, with chimney and Argand burner, oil under forced pressure of a spring. France 130,669 No. 19. Lamp, with chimney ; burner ventilated ; tubular wick, raising refined petroleum by capillarity. United States, 1876 73,829 No. 20. Gas burner. United States 178,190 No. 21. Electric arc lamp. (No cut.) The familiar arc lamp would appear here. No. 22. Incandescent hood for gas burner. Welsbach's invention 178,192 No. 23. Incandescent electric lamp 178,191 |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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