Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 51
ANCIENT LAMP. 40 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY … TALLOW DIP. liquid. A prime improvement was made in lamp-lighting in 1783, by Leger,of Paris, who devised the flat, metallic burner, through which he passed aneatly prepared wick. A further improvement was made in 1784 by Argand, of Paris, who introduced a burner consistingof two circular tubes,…
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