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Definition of Kerosene lamp

1. Noun. A lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerosene Lamp

Literary usage of Kerosene lamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1870)
"À lamp exploded in Martin Leroy's bakery, setting fire to the premises. A kerosene lamp exploded at No. 40, Franklin street ; damage trifling. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1897)
"Heim,1 in studying the efficiency of various sources of light, used a kerosene lamp as a secondary standard, with good results. ..."

3. The Science of Everyday Life: Projects for Junior High Schools by Edgar Flandreau Van Buskirk, Edith Lillian Smith (1919)
"A kerosene lamp. Have you heard of whale-oil lamps? ... A kerosene lamp must have a bowl for the oil and a wick; it usually has also a chimney and a burner. ..."

4. Mechanical Devices in the Home by Edith Louise Allen (1922)
"A kerosene lamp consists of a bowl, a burner, a wick and a chimney. In the ordinary lamp, the bowl for holding the oil is placed below the burner (Fig. 51). ..."

5. Patent Essentials for the Executive, Engineer, Lawyer and Inventor: A by John Franklin Robb, George Prescott Tucker, Louis William Maxson, Edwin Clark Reynolds, Loren Alonzo Sadler, Edward Collins (1922)
"kerosene lamp Heater Co. vs. Littell, 3 Banning and Arden, 312, Nixon, 1878. There is no patentable combination, properly so called, in an aggregation of ..."

6. American Inventions and Inventors by William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry (1910)
"At the present time the best illumination is furnished by gas and electricity, but in the country and to a large extent in the cities the kerosene lamp is ..."

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