|
|
Definition of Gas lamp
1. Noun. A lamp that burns illuminating gas.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Lamp
Literary usage of Gas lamp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1906)
"These lamps are a very economical large unit light. Within the last two years,
there has been perfected what is known as the inverted gas lamp. ..."
2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by Nathan Clarke Johnson, George Albert Hool (1920)
"This greatly limited the use of the gas lamp, but more modern designs permit ...
With these developments, the gas lamp has almost the same adapta- bleness ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1819)
"Account of a new Portable gas lamp, invented by DAVID GORDON, Esq. Edinburgh *.
JL HE application of inflammable gas to the purposes of illumination, ..."
4. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"This was erected by Cavendish Weedon, of Lincoln's Inn, but in 1817 it was taken
away and replaced by a gas lamp. Lincoln's Inn Old Square, or Old Buildings ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"0-027 ~ -'•I0 descent gas lamp illumination O<oi6 = 1*24 Ordinary arc lamp 0-060 «
4-50 Flame arc lamp o-uu = 9-00 The cost of electricity, light for light, ..."
6. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"... Oxyhydrogen Gas-Lamp. non-metallic substance with which they may be in
combination, but where several metals are volatilized at the same time, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1906)
"These lamps are a very economical large unit light. Within the last two years,
there has been perfected what is known as the inverted gas lamp. ..."
8. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by Nathan Clarke Johnson, George Albert Hool (1920)
"This greatly limited the use of the gas lamp, but more modern designs permit ...
With these developments, the gas lamp has almost the same adapta- bleness ..."
9. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1819)
"Account of a new Portable gas lamp, invented by DAVID GORDON, Esq. Edinburgh *.
JL HE application of inflammable gas to the purposes of illumination, ..."
10. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"This was erected by Cavendish Weedon, of Lincoln's Inn, but in 1817 it was taken
away and replaced by a gas lamp. Lincoln's Inn Old Square, or Old Buildings ..."
11. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"0-027 ~ -'•I0 descent gas lamp illumination O<oi6 = 1*24 Ordinary arc lamp 0-060 «
4-50 Flame arc lamp o-uu = 9-00 The cost of electricity, light for light, ..."
12. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"... Oxyhydrogen Gas-Lamp. non-metallic substance with which they may be in
combination, but where several metals are volatilized at the same time, ..."
Other Resources:
