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2. Oil lamp - Wikipedia

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   A textile wick drops down into the oil, and is lit at the end, burning the oil as it is drawn up the wick. Oil lamps are a form of lighting, and were used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric lights. Starting in 1780, the Argand lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form.

3. Qulliq - Wikipedia

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   A qulliq being lit, Nunavut, 1999. The qulliq[1] or kudlik[2] (Inuktitut: ᖁᓪᓕᖅ, romanized: qulliq, IPA: [qulːiq]; Greenlandic: qulleq; Inupiaq: naniq), is the traditional oil lamp used by many circumpolar peoples, including the Inuit, the Chukchi [3] and the Yupik peoples. [4] The fuel is seal -oil or blubber, and the lamp is made of ...

4. Betty lamp - Wikipedia

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   The Betty lamp is a lamp thought to be of German, Austrian, or Hungarian origin. It came into use in the 18th century. They were commonly made of iron or brass and were most often used in the home or workshop. These lamps burned fish oil or fat trimmings and had wicks of twisted cloth. The Betty lamp differs from earlier oil/grease lamps in ...

5. 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. In France, the lamp is called "Quinquet", after Antoine-Arnoult Quinquet, a ...

6. Opium lamp - Wikipedia

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   An opium lamp is an oil lamp designed specifically to facilitate the vaporization and inhalation of opium. Opium lamps differ from conventional lamps for lighting in that they are designed to channel an exact amount of heat upward through their funnel-shaped chimneys. An opium pipe, its pipe-bowl primed with a small dose of opium known as a ...

7. R. E. Dietz Company - Wikipedia

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   R.E. Dietz Company was a lighting products manufacturer best known for its hot blast and cold blast kerosene lanterns. It was started in 1840 when its founder, 22-year-old Robert Edwin Dietz, purchased a lamp and oil business in Brooklyn, New York. Though famous for well-built indoor and outdoor kerosene lanterns, it was a major player in the ...