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 185
D is a brass tube extending into the fluid, and it has a cap at the top,perforated all around. F is the flame ignition points of the gas, as it comes out of the perforations. Eis the wick; the wick, by capillary attraction, carries up the fluid by heating the top of the tube Duntil the fluid… … Figs. 2503 and 2504 is another kind of lamp altogetlier. It does not use any wick at aU. Fig. 2503is a front elevation of it, and Fig. 2504 is an enlarged section of one of the burners. A is the camphenereservoir, which can be filled at the top. B is a handle passing down the centre of the vessel…
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