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Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 10 (1867) (1867)

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up-shaped re- given off. Inthe United States a law has been passed impos- ceptacle, at the end, and just behind that cars for the recep- ing heavy penalties on any one selling petroleum oil for illu- tion of a thumb lever which isthere pivoted. The short end minating purposes which is inflammable… … the wick is raised or lowered, as on an ordinary kerosene are bent into hooks at their cuterends. The long end of the lamp. By turning the thumb-wheel, B, under the bottom, lever is kept up byacurved spring except when depressed the elevation of the wick can be governed. On the other by the thumb,…

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