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Rumford lamps

Scope note

Lamps, usually of painted metal but also found in brass, with a cylindrical font in the shape of a tubular column containing a T-shaped wick tube which supports a flat wick and a rack-and-pinion wick raiser. A flat oval reservoir to the side feeds fuel to the font through a tube. Used with a cylindrical glass chimney and a painted sheet iron shade. Invented about 1800 by Count Rumford.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300037610

Broader Terms used

vertical wick lamps

Equivalent Terms used

Rumford lamp

Created

13yrs ago

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