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A hand-held oil lamp or incense sticks (lit from the lamp) are also used during the Hindu puja ceremony. In the North of India, a five-wick lamp is used, usually fueled with ghee . On special occasions, various other lamps may be used for puja, the most elaborate having several tiers of wicks.
Oil's Well (a pun on "all's well") is a video game published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. The game was written for the Atari 8-bit computers by Thomas J. Mitchell. [ 1 ] Oil's Well is similar to the 1982 arcade game Anteater , re-themed to be about drilling for oil instead of a hungry insectivore.
Lampworking is a type of glasswork in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking, as the modern practice no longer uses oil-fueled lamps.
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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.
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.
Seal oil lamps. The Inuit oil lamps were made mainly of soapstone, but there are also some made of a special kind of pottery. [12] Sizes and shapes of lamps could be different, but most were either elliptical or half-moon shaped. [13] The taqquti or wick trimmers, also known as lamp feeders, were made of wood, willow, soapstone, bone or ivory. [14]
James left home when he was 16 and tried his hand at a range of occupations, including wood turning and japanning, pub landlord, brush making, die sinking, medal making and cotton reel manufacture before turning his mind to perfecting the design of oil lamps.