acetylene lamp

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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

I turned back to lower the flame of the acetylene lamp and in the receding flare of it between the shrouded racks I came face to face with Mr. Montague.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

Mr. Anderson waited till the steps were just outside the room and then flung open the door, but the light from his acetylene lamp revealed a passage full of moonbeams—nothing else.

From Werwolves by O'Donnell, Elliott

Garbed thus, and with an acetylene lamp in his hand, he was the natural prey of photographers, who refused to spare him until he escaped into the cage and baffled them by going underground.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

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