Oil lamp
An oil lamp is a lamp used for lighting by burning oil. Usually, it produces a flame by burning olive oil, or another vegetable oil, or whale oil during the 1700s and 1800s.[1] They burned cleaner, with less smoke, than candles and other sources of light before electricity.
The lamps were usually made of pottery or metal or glass. An old story in the 1001 Nights has Aladdin cleaning (rubbing the lamp) and making a Genie appear.
Late in the 19th century, those lamps were mostly replaced by kerosene lamps.
Oil Lamp Media
Group of ancient lamps (Hellenistic and Roman)
Simple contemporary Indian clay oil lamp during Diwali
Sukunda oil lamp of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Korea-Horongbul
Modern oil lamp of Germany with flat wick
Double-nozzled terracotta oil lamp found in Samaria
Jewish terracotta oil lamps from Sardinia in the Museo Nazionale Sanna, Sassari
Oil lamp burning before the icon of St. Mercurius of Smolensk, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine
Paavai vilakku: brass oil lamp from Tamil Nadu in the image of Andal
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References
- ↑ "Oil History". Samuel T Pees. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
