📚 noun • entry_id 56358
Argand lamp
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A type of oil lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
It is probable that Loutherbourg used Argand lamps to achieve his startling effects of meteorology in the Eidophusikon in the mid 1780s.
Never was a more lovely thought than that of the astral lamp. I mean, of course, the astral lamp proper, and do not wish to be misunderstood — the lamp of Argand with its original…
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