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Argand lamps

 

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Argand lamps

 

Meaning of term argand lamps

An oil-burning lamp with a glass chimney, named for the Swiss physicist and inventor Argand (1750-1803), who invented the tubular wick burner in 1782. Argand lamps are efficient because the tubular wick feeds oxygen to the flame and the chimney increases

 

Category : object vessel glass

 

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Corning Museum of Glass | Glass dictionary. (1993). Retrieved February 12, 2008, from http://www.cmog.org/index.asp?pageId=687.

 

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