Building stone, lathing, plastering, and tiling, common brickwork, ornamental brickwork and terra cotta : lighting fixtures, use and design of lighting fixtures, architectural design (1909)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton : International Textbook Co. · leaf 255
n metal or earthenware vessels, as shown inFig. 1, the illuminant being drawn through the wick to theflame by capillary attraction. This is the prototype of thelamps as now known. With this new method of illumina-tion, it became incumbent on the maker to evolve somemethod of abating the noxious… … Fig. 1 Fig. 2 The first of these imperfections was partly remedied bydistilling oil from animal fats and then adding rich perfumesto the product, thus causing the oil to burn with less result-ing soot and with the odors disguised by the perfumes. Theother imperfection of the primitive lamp was…
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