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unusual facts about gas mantle


Mantle

Gas mantle, a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame


Cannel coal

Cannel gas was widely used for domestic lighting throughout the 19th century before the invention of the incandescent gas mantle by Carl Auer von Welsbach in the 1880s.

Petromax

Petromax is a brand name for a type of pressurised paraffin lamp (US:kerosene lamp) that uses a mantle.


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