The first carbide bicycle lamp developed in the United States was patented in New York on August 28, 1900 by Frederick Baldwin. Another early lamp design is shown in a Duluth, Minnesota patent dated October 21, 1902. In the early 1900s, Gustaf Dalén invented the Dalén light. This combined two of Dalén's earlier inventions: the Agamassan substrate and the Sun valve. Inventions and improvements to carbide lamps continued for decades.
After the open flames of carbide lamps were implicated in a methane gas explosion in the Illinois coalfield that killed 54 miners, the 1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster, the use of carbide lamps declined in coal mines across the United States. They continued to be used in coal mines in other countries, notably the USSR.
At the birth of
the cinema in Iquitos, a carbide lamp was used as a light fixture to screen the
first film in Casa de Fierro in 1900.
Antique copper carbide bicycle lamp
279.00 Lei
This lamp was produced in Flanders, Belgium, around 1900. It was also picked up there. It is a bicycle lamp that has been kept in fairly good condition. The magnifying glass is cracked...
Antique copper carbide bicycle lamp
560.00 Lei
This lamp was produced in Flanders, Belgium, around 1900. It was also taken over from there. It is a bicycle lamp that has been kept in good condition. The acetylene lamp was designed by the..