Meaning of fountain lamp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir.
   historical
2. A lamp that consists of a large number of fiber optic tubes that mimic the spray of water from a fountain.

Examples

“The oil will be maintained at an uniform level in the burner of this lamp as perfectly as it is in the cocmmon fountain lamp, without being open⟳ to the objection against that lamp, of casting a shadow.”

“The flame generally used in reflectors is from an Argand fountain lamp, the wick of which is one inch in diameter.”

“but it was asserted by Mr. Faraday that the beneficial effect could not be maintained unless the oil was supplied more copiously than at present⟳ by the inefficient fountain lamp universally supplied by the Trinity Board⟳ to the 1st order⟳, dioptric lights.”

“A familiar application is the fountain lamp that has several hundred fibers spraying out of the top.”

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