Carbon Arc lights (Wiki:
Carbon arc lamp)
predate heated filament Edison type lamps. They were used in
radar controlled W.W. II search lights, lantern slide and movie
projectors, inside lights for large public meeting halls, etc.
There are some modern arc lamps that use Tungsten instead of carbon
electrodes (Wiki:
Arc
Lamp, ) for automotive headlights (
HID)
and other applications where a very bright light is needed.
Different gases can be used in the lamp such as (Wiki links follow:)
Neon,
Argon,
Xenon,
Krypton,
Sodium,
metal halide, Mercury vapor. Vietnam era
VSS-1/GSS-14 or VSS-3 Xenon arc lights were fitted on tanks and gun
trucks.
All
fluorescent lamps are really Mercury
vapor arc lamps with a
phosphor coating on the inside of the glass to
convert the UV to visible light. This includes the Compact
Fluorescent lamps that are green in the sense of using less electricity
but not green in the sense of having Mercury inside them.
Mantle type lamps produce much more
light than wick type lamps. But mantle lamps do not have a hot
body spectrum but instead have narrow peaks in the spectrum due to the
rare earth elements that are impregnated into the mantle. This is
very similar to the "white" LEDs not one the market or to florescent
lights.
This would include whale oil lamps,
kerosene lamps, gasoline, diesel, etc.
580569
Lantern, Apr 13, 1897, 362/159 - wick type bicycle lantern
Aladdin (kerosene) - wick
heats mantle
Coleman Kero-Lite - wick
heats mantle
2222092
Lamp Burner Assembly, Nov 19, 1940, 431/102 ; 431/241; 431/307;
431/309
2235240
Mantel Holder, March 18, 1941, 431/111 ; 431/102; 431/113
2239346
Mantle April 22, 1941, 431/100 ; 66/169R
5533892
Liquid
fuel
lantern with electronic ignition, July 9, 1996, 431/264 ;
431/107; 431/255; 431/344
5836757
Liquid
fuel
lantern, Nov 17, 1998, 431/264 ; 431/107; 431/123
Petromax
(almost any liquid fuel) - pressurized liquid, vaporized then burned
without wick -
Wiki
6439223
Lantern System (
cooking top for
Promax), Aug 27, 2002, 126/258 ; 126/48; 362/179; 362/180; 362/93;
431/344
6688877
Lantern and fuel system and method (methanol, i.e. no carbon monoxide)
lantern, Feb 10, 2004, 431/104 ; 431/107; 431/218; 431/227; 431/228
6863526
Lantern
and
fuel system (O-ring seals), Mar 8, 2005, 431/100 ; 417/553;
431/103; 431/104; 431/107; 431/108
6887071
Lantern
and
fuel system (combined heat & light), May 3, 2005,
431/104 ; 431/100; 431/103; 431/107
I think the US GI M1950 gas single burner stove is from the Petromax
design and was also made by Coleman as their
camping stove.
The original air pump was made like a small version of a bicycle tire
pump using leather as the seal. The O-Ring modification replaces
the leather with an O-ring making for a better seal.
Safety - to prevent the flame from igniting an explosive atmosphere.
Wolf
- still makes electric lamps for explosive atmospheres, some are
powered by compressed air