acetylene lamp

Example Sentences

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Eventually, Congress came to realize that something must be done, and a temporary first lighthouse was built in 1912, an unmanned acetylene lamp.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Louise studied the confident, freckled face before her, the sparkling bicycle with its glossy saddle and acetylene lamp, the heavily padded baseball glove on the nickeled handle bars, and then their owner again.

From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell

The big acetylene lamp which, had come in with the boys' baggage had not been set up, so the cabin was now lighted only by flashlights.

From The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier by Sherman, V. T.

Courtenay pulled aside the flap, poked his head in and found himself blinking in the bright glare of an acetylene lamp suspended in the middle of a Mechanical Transport traveling workshop.

From Action Front by Cable, Boyd

In this retreat, anti-tetanus injections are going on by the light of an acetylene lamp.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater