acetylene lamp

In 1917 the site was the first to be automated with an acetylene lamp.

After what seemed a long time, Fraser came in carrying an acetylene lamp.

Acetylene lamps were also used on riverboats for night navigation.

It would be suicidal, even after the acetylene lamp had been extinguished.

Acetylene lamps were popular because the flame was resistant to wind and rain.

By the light of the acetylene lamps, I could see his gaping, contorted mouth.

It roared as it burned, like a great acetylene lamp.

His acetylene lamp only makes the dust glow, giving him a visibility of perhaps six inches.

Acetylene lamps, hung round it on posts, cast a piercing white light.

Then in 1928 a small skeleton tower was erected next to the house, sporting an acetylene lamp.

Another of Kane's innovations for use in the field was an acetylene lamp worn on the head by the surgeon.

I'm acutely conscious of how close are dynamite and flaming acetylene lamp.

Hissing white acetylene lamps lit up a table around which men and women in bloody aprons clustered.

I took an acetylene lamp from a post and went up and down in the mud, looking at the dark, shining seam.

Blood rushed out, bright and red in the acetylene lamps, and she caught some in a dish.

At Parliament Square they had a couple of acetylene lamps roaring and flaring their distinctive green light.

The chico's mother gives me an acetylene lamp and a frayed nylon jacket.

No sooner had she crossed the street than a long line of trucksrolled past, their acetylene lamps turning morning twilight to noon.

On an improvised dissecting-table in the old farmhouse, by the light of a powerful acetylene lamp, the specimen was not very spectral looking.

The acetylene lamps hissed.

Ypres The Austin lorry pulled into the farm yard, its yellow acetylene lamps lighting up the walls.

The original kerosene lamp was replaced by a petrol lamp and then an acetylene lamp in 1930.

Acetylene lamps, powered by carbide, was one of the main light sources used by cavers during the 20th century.

Originally headlights were oil or acetylene lamps, but when electric arc lamps became available in the late 1880s, they quickly replaced the older types.

Acetylene Lamp made regular appearances in Astro Boy.