carbide lamp
acetylene gas lamp

The few carbide lamps they carried did little to help too.

Once we get underground, you're going to need to light your carbide lamp.

We had reached the end of a brown lake lit by carbide lamps.

Miners were still using carbide lamps to work by down the mine in the late 1950s.

Then he turned his own carbide lamp off completely and stepped away into the darkness.

In many other countries this term refers to a carbide lamp. cf.

Each carries a carbide lamp in his left hand.

Someone came through the courtyard silently bearing a carbide lamp.

But the light was abandoned after only seven years and the cave is today visited with carbide lamps.

For most of its history, the lighting was provided by carbide lamps, and a large mirror in the back remains from that time.

At first lighting in the completed church was provided by a large suspended carbide lamp.

Carbide lamps gave better illumination but they too relied on an open flame.

The light of the carbide lamp catches Andrew's smile, which is missing two front teeth.

That'll be me with a old carbide lamp.

Most early automobiles used carbide lamps before the adoption of electric headlights.

This is the stuff that is used in carbide lamps and can be found at nearly any hardware store.

It took her a moment to locate the glow of Sanner's carbide lamp.

In 1920 the light source was replaced with a carbide lamp, automated and demanned.

Inventions and improvements to carbide lamps continued for decades.

Many people burnt candles and others obtained carbide lamps.

A miner accidentally left a carbide lamp hanging from a timber support, which caught fire.

Human voices floated out to meet them on the soft glow of a half-dozen carbide lamps.

Their circuits are working," said the weapons officer, lifting one up to carbide lamp level to run an internal check. "

He lit the carbide lamp over the panel.

His carbide lamp lit the uneven rock walls with a flat white light and he felt himself starting to sweat.

The light source was an acetylene gas lamp.

The station was lit by acetylene gas lamps until 1917 when calcium carbide became difficult to obtain.

The light source, however, will be different: once an acetylene gas lamp, it will now be electric.

Portable acetylene gas lamps, worn on the hat or carried by hand, were widely used in mining in the early twentieth century.

In 1920 a fixed automatic acetylene gas lamp (carbide lamp) with a sun valve was installed.

Working under the glare of hissing acetylene gas lamps, the roughnecks hauled up the two one-hundred-pound charges of dynamite.

Acetylene gas lamps were used to illuminate buildings, as lighthouse beacons, and as headlights on motor-cars and bicycles.

From 1896 acetylene gas lighting for bicycles started to be introduced and later in 1899 acetylene gas lamps for the motor-car became popular.

Cannell states another favorite amongst shadowgraphists is the use of acetylene gas (i.e. acetylene gas lamp or carbide lamp).

Carbide lamps, also known as acetylene gas lamps, are simple lamps that produce and burn acetylene which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide with water.

At first was used oil lamps for the light, then compressed oil, in 1841 was installed the Fresnel lens and was used the acetylene gas lamp; at the end of 1800s the installation was electrified.

By 1904 paraffin lamps and candles had been replaced with an acetylene gas lamp installation and much later electricity came with the arrival of other houses along the main road between Mayfield and Tunbridge Wells.

In 1906 Rev. J. H. Whitehead was appointed rector of Tingalpa parish, and due to his enthusiastic parish work Christ Church was renovated in 1907 and acetylene gas lamps installed.