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  2. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    A sole, token gas lamp is located at N. Holliday Street and E. Baltimore Street as a monument to the first gas lamp in America, erected at that location. However, gas lighting of streets has not disappeared completely from some cities, and the few municipalities that retained gas lighting now find that it provides a pleasing nostalgic effect.

  3. Bevolo Gas and Electric Lights - Wikipedia

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    Historic gas lamp at Bourbon Orleans Hotel. The company caters to high income customers and has a wide variety of restaurant, commercial, residential clients. [3] Bevolo products appear frequently on television and in movies. [1] [9]

  4. Carbide lamp - Wikipedia

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    A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C 2 H 2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC 2) with water (H 2 O). [ 1 ] Acetylene gas lamps were used to illuminate buildings, as lighthouse beacons, and as headlights on motor-cars and bicycles.

  5. Gas-discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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    Ruhmkorff lamps were an early form of portable electric lamp, named after Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff and first used in the 1860s. The lamp consisted of a Geissler tube that was excited by a battery-powered Ruhmkorff induction coil; an early transformer capable of converting DC currents of low voltage into rapid high-voltage pulses.

  6. Lamplighter - Wikipedia

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    A gas lamp is located at N. Holliday Street and E. Baltimore Street as a monument to the first gas lamp in America, erected at that location. [ 9 ] However, gas lighting of streets has not disappeared completely from some cities, and the few municipalities that retained gas lighting now find that it provides a pleasing nostalgic effect.

  7. Gas mantle - Wikipedia

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    Hot gas mantles. The lowest visible mantle has partially broken, reducing its light output An 85 mm Chance Brothers Incandescent Petroleum Vapour Installation. The mantle is a roughly pear-shaped fabric bag, made from silk, ramie-based artificial silk, or rayon.

  8. Coleman Lantern - Wikipedia

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    The Coleman Lantern is a line of pressure lamps first introduced by the Coleman Company in 1914. This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline.

  9. Tilley lamp - Wikipedia

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    Tilley storm lantern X246B May 1978: this model has been in production since 1964. Operation of a Tilley lamp (Video) Large Tilley radiator R55 from 1957 [1] Tilley Lamp TL10 from 1922-1946 [2]