Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 184
uperior to that produced by any oillamp ; but if attention is not paid to the management, or the camphene is not pure, it frequently evolvesa strong smell of turpentine, producing headache and other disagreeable sensations, or large flakes ofsoot escape unconsumed and cover every thing in the… … Tlie lamp which fulfils the conditions for the perfect combustion of camphene in the most successfulmauner. is the Gem lamp, a section of which is shown in Fig. 2500. It differs from Youngs lamp, inthe mode of deflecting the currents of air, and in allowing the Argand tube supplying the…
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