Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Fig. 2. what progress it would have made over gas. Thisinvention has brought gas up alongside of electric lightagain, or nearly so; but it cannot be made to surpassit, and the advantages of electric light are so muchover gas in other respects than mere lighting that itcan never stay alongside of it. With the discovery of the oil wells in Pennsylvaniacame the invention by Edward Miller, in 1855, of thekerosene burner. Later Leonard Henkle brought outthe central draft lamp known as the Rochester. (I
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It This was first made by Wallace 5c Sons, and laterperfected by Edward Miller & Co. The great thing, about the discovery of petroleumwas the fact that it afforded in the devices that weremade to burn it opportunities for decoration hithertounobtainable. Soft-hued and shaded lamps could beplaced in nooks and corners or on pedestals with acharming effect. The founts and shades took on anartistic character, and beautiful creations wereevolved in both glass and metal, the latter being ofsuch classic form as to furnish their own excuse forornamental being, without considering the questionof utility. The plain, unattractive crystal oil-lamp of earlieryears, and the equally uninviting shade that once fr « . .:r .in* I

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