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
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mperfect and bad until1782, when Amie Argand of France invented a bur-ner with a circular wick which supplied the flamewith an inner and outer current of air, and a glasschimney. But the genius of the Frenchman couldntdiscover a good method of fixing the chimney on thelamp. This Samuel Parker did by inventing those attached chimney supports that you see on the bur-ners of the present day. The genius of ages had been at work trying todevise a means of raising oil in lamps. Hero, ot Al-exandria, Egypt, i2i years before Christ, invented amethod, and between that time and the last centurya oreat many inventions were made along the same The oil used by the ancients was purely vegetable, savein the far northern countries, where animal oil wasused which offered greater resistance to freezing. The lantern was also an invention of note and hadits influence upon the world. It was the first greatstreet light, and it was that which guided Shakespearehome from the theatre at night. Saint Jerome is
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Fig. 5. line. Peter Keir finally invented a great method forits day by adding to the oil a fluid whose specificgravity was so much greater that the oil easily rose totbe top. The real lamp, as we know it to-day, came withthe practical use of petroleum—rock oil, as the Ro-mans called it, from the circumstance of seeing itooze out of rocks in the Indian Islands. But theRomans, as well as people long after their day, didntknow what it really waE, and used it as medicine. authority for the statement there were fixed streetlights in Antioch. and there is no doubt but that theywere the first street lights in the world. At any rate,they were not in England until about 1414, when, byorder, the merchants of London were compelled tohang lanterns outside their doors at night. A similarorder was made at the The Hague in 1553. Francecame along after that, and it was in Paris that streetlights were first maintained at general rather than in-dividual expense. When gas was brought into gen- KALEVIM

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