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Carbide Lamp

In 1892, Thomas Willson discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide in an electric arc furnace from a mixture of lime and coke. The electric arc furnace provides the high temperature needed to drive the reaction. The manufacture of calcium carbide was an important part of the industrial revolution in chemistry and was made possible in the United States as a result of the massive amounts of cheap hydroelectric power produced at Niagara Falls before the turn of the 20th century. In 1895, Willson sold his patent to Union Carbide. Domestic acetylene gas lighting was introduced around 1894, and bicycle lamps from 1896. In France, Gustave Trouvé, a Parisian electrical engineer, also manufactured acetylene lamps and gasometers for domestic use.

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..

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