Argand lamp

English
Argand mantle lamp, c. 1830

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Etymology

Named after inventor Ami Argand of Geneva.

Noun

Argand lamp (plural Argand lamps)

  1. (now historical) A type of oil lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
    • 1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture:
      Never was a more lovely thought than that of the astral lamp. I mean, of course, the astral lamp proper, and do not wish to be misunderstood — the lamp of Argand with its original plain ground-glass shade, and its tempered and uniform moonlight rays.
    • 2007, Christopher Baugh, in Moody & O'Quinn (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre 1730–1830, p. 52:
      It is probable that Loutherbourg used Argand lamps to achieve his startling effects of meteorology in the Eidophusikon in the mid 1780s.

Synonyms
  • Argand burner

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