Lampe Pigeon: non-explosive (gasoline/petrol vapour lamp, French)

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Uploaded by on Sep 18, 2008

Designed years before there was any other market for petrol/gasoline. Brighter and less smelly than kerosene.

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  • I hope you can get one. They were ubiquitous in France and all over Europe, for decades.

  • These were made at an early date when gasoline was an unneeded byproduct of petroleum refining. Oil was the main want. Gasoline, before the horseless carriage, was considered dangerously explosive, and was even dumped into American rivers; one account reported that a river caught fire! But the Inventor made the petrol/gasoline principle safe (non-explosive). Hence, the metal body, unbreakable if dropped. hth, r.

  • thats a nice lamp, i might get myself one for the cold winter nights.

  • Where was the explosion!? lampe? u mean Lame!

  • How it works: it does not explode, not even if dropped. The can is filled with woolen fiber.

    Soaked in "essence", gasoline or petrol to English speakers, this lamp makes a whiter and somewhat better light than plain old kerosene flat wick lamps.

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