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2. 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 ...

3. Qulliq - Wikipedia

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   The fuel is seal-oil or blubber, and the lamp is made of soapstone. [5] A qulliq is lit with a stick called a taqqut. This characteristic type of oil lamp provided warmth and light in the harsh Arctic environment where there was no wood and where the sparse inhabitants relied almost entirely on seal oil or on whale blubber. This lamp was the ...

4. 'Extremely rare' ancient oil lamp with 1,700-year-old soot ...

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   The oil lamp, roughly 1,700 years old, dates to the fourth century. The lamp also contains soot marks from the last time it was used, nearly two millennia ago. Read On The Fox News App

5. 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.

6. Argand lamp - Wikipedia

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   The Argand lamp was introduced to Thomas Jefferson in Paris in 1784 and according to him gave off "a light equal to six or eight candles." [ 4 ] These new lamps, much more complex and costly than the previous primitive oil lamps, were first adopted by the wealthy, but soon spread to the middle classes and eventually the less well-off as well.

7. Diya (lamp) - Wikipedia

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   Symmetrical Diwali diyas Women selling Bamboo diyas near Bhadrachalam A diya lamp with swastika engraved interior. A diya, diyo, deya, [1] deeya, dia, divaa, deepa, deepam, deep, deepak or saaki (Sanskrit: दीपम्, romanized: Dīpam) is an oil lamp made from clay or mud with a cotton wick dipped in oil or ghee.