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  2. File:Oil lamp.svg - Wikipedia

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  3. Oil lamp - Wikipedia

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    An oil lamp is a lamp used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source. The use of oil lamps began thousands of years ago and continues to this day, although their use is less common in modern times.

  4. Argand lamp - Wikipedia

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    An Argand lamp in use in A Portrait of James Peale, done in 1822 by Charles Willson Peale Argand lamp with circular wick and glass chimney. Illustration from Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1869) by Louis Figuier. The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand.

  5. File:Nursing symbol.svg - Wikipedia

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    An oil lamp, the symbol of nursing in many countries: Date: 30 June 2007: Source: self-made This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape. Author: Silje:

  6. Betty lamp - Wikipedia

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    The Crusie lamp consists of two lamp pans, one above the other. Fuel drip from the upper lamp pan fell into the lower pan minimizing oil/grease mess below the lamp. In the evolution to the Betty lamp, replacing the upper lamp pan with a metal wick holder inside the lower pan reduces the amount of metal needed for the lamp.

  7. Moderator lamp - Wikipedia

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    A moderator lamp provides a pressurized supply of oil to the lamp wick by use of a spiral spring-loaded piston operating on a cylindrical oil reservoir. A regulating mechanism, the "moderator", compensates for the varying force of the spring as the piston descends. The moderator is a wire that runs through a tube in the center of the piston.

  8. Nilavilakku - Wikipedia

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    The art forms are performed after lighting the lamp. In Kerala, many functions are inaugurated by lighting Nilavilakku. [2] Nilavilakku is usually made of bronze or brass. Usually cotton wicks doused in oil or ghee are used for lighting the lamp. There are three ways of lighting the lamp.

  9. Sacred Heart lamp - Wikipedia

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    Following this, the placement of an oil lamp with a picture of Jesus with the Sacred Heart iconography became common in Irish homes [1] to signify the household being consecrated to the Sacred Heart. [2] Originally an oil lamp with a red glass holder on a bracket, it was kept lit as a perpetual flame. [3]