Carcel lamp
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carcel-lamp-262-9722813
title:
Carcel lamp
text:
The Carcel lamp was an efficient lighting device used in the nineteenth century for domestic purposes and in France as the standard measure for illumination. The lamp was invented by the French watchmaker Bernard Guillaume Carcel (1750–1818) to overcome the disadvantages of the Argand-type lamps then in use. The vegetable - mostly colza - oils then available were thick and would not travel far up a wick. The Argand lamps used a gravity feed which meant that the oil reservoir was located above th
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Oil lamp with a clockwork pump mechanism
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcel_lamp
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date modified:
2023-11-19T08:57:56Z
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