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2. Ami Argand - Wikipedia

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   François-Pierre-Amédée Argand, known as Ami Argand (5 July 1750 – 14 [1] or 24 October 1803 [2]) was a Genevan physicist and chemist. He invented the Argand lamp , a great improvement on the traditional oil lamp .

3. Argand lamp - Wikipedia

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   The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand. Its output is 6 to 10 candelas , brighter than that of earlier lamps. Its more complete combustion of the candle wick and oil than in other lamps required much less frequent trimming of the wick.

4. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   1780 Ami Argand invents the central draught fixed oil lamp. 1784 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp. 1786 William Nicholson proposes use of concentric wicks. [3] 1792 William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting and probably produced the first gas light in this year.

5. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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   This supplied gas lamps equal to 75,000 Argand lamps each yielding the light of six candles. At the City Gas Works, in Dorset Street, Blackfriars, three chaldrons of coal were carbonized each day, providing the gas equivalent of 9,000 Argand lamps. So 28 chaldrons of coal were carbonized daily, and 84,000 lights supplied by those two companies ...

6. Miller and Sons (London, Piccadilly) - Wikipedia

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   The company of Miller and Sons, based at 179 Picadilly was founded prior to 1835, [2] possibly in the 1820s as a successor to F Glossop. George Alexander Miller who was involved in the business was awarded patent 6551 in 1834 for an improved arrangement of wicks in an Argand lamp. [3]

7. William Thomas Sugg - Wikipedia

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   A circa 1906 Sugg gas lamp. William Thomas Sugg (1833 – 28 February 1907) was a British gas lighting engineer. He was trained from 1851 by his father, who had founded William Sugg and Company as a gas lighting firm in 1837. After his father's 1860 death Sugg took over the family firm.

8. Trump Doesn't Stand for Obama but Then Chats with Him ... - AOL

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   The five living U.S. presidents — Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — reunited to honor the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter. On Thursday, Jan. 9, a date ...

9. Henry Northey Hooper - Wikipedia

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   He later purchased the foundry and established Henry N. Hooper & Co. to produce lamps and lighting fixtures, bells, and by 1862, artillery for the Union Army. Hooper was probably best known as a manufacturer of fine decorative lighting fixtures, including chandeliers, girandoles, Argand lamps, and other cast and gilt bronze lighting. He was ...