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Slide Archive. [12] Around 170,000 lantern size glass slides, manufactured from 1900 up to 1980 from all fields of Archeology and Art History, used by famous art historians such as Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Schöne. Slide Projectors. Digitization in progress since 2016, about 3,000 images online in database (password protected).
Oil lamp (17 P) S. Searchlights (12 P) Signalling lights (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Types of lamp" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
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.
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a snow effect slide can add snow to another slide (preferably of a winter scene) by moving a flexible loop of material pierced with tiny holes in front of one of the lenses of a double or triple lantern. [65] Mechanical slides with abstract special effects include: Slide with a fantoccini trapeze artist and a chromatrope border design (c. 1880)
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.
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 or mantle as light source, protected by a glass chimney or globe; lamps may be used on a table, or hand-held lanterns may be used for portable lighting.
Pages in category "Oil lamp" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...