| Dimensions | 550х140.5х140.5 millimeters |
Table kerosene lamp - high, glass, made of transparent colorless glass, with a narrow long cylindrical bulb, profiled reservoir and base. It is a true decoration of the museum's glass collection. End of the 19th century Europe.
The design of a kerosene lamp is simple - kerosene is poured into a metal container, into which a wick is immersed. The other end of the wick is used to light the lamp. As an additional traction and protection from the wind, the wick is covered with a glass bulb.
The history of the kerosene lamp is quite remarkable. Petr Mikolyash lived in Lviv. He was a businessman and owned one of the city's largest pharmacies. Two merchants from Drohobych offered him a deal. The pharmacist buys distillate from them, and he allegedly distills it into a rather cheap alcohol. The dealers promised him an astronomical gain. Thus, the deal went through.
The distillation process was handled by a laboratory assistant from a Lviv businessman, whose name was Jan Zeh. It was he, along with his colleague Ignatiy Lukasiewicz, who began to spend the night and day in the laboratory, experimenting with oil products. After some time, the discoverers managed to get kerosene. They began to use this liquid just in the modernized oil burner. As a result, the first kerosene lamp lit the shop window of their employer's pharmacy. By the way, the place was called "Under the Star".
Laboratory assistant Zeh was more than pleased with the fuel discovery, success, and prospects. Literally at once, after leaving the pharmacy, he was able to open his own shop, which offered kerosene to potential buyers. In just one year, his small company managed to sell about sixty tons of this fuel! This fuel was mainly intended for lighting Lviv streets.
When the fame of the kerosene lamp spread across the territory of neighboring states, the Austrians became seriously interested in this type of lighting. Without hesitation, they began to release it at home. This production was taken over by a Viennese company called "Dietmar". This factory began to produce about 1000 models of such burners. The company's warehouses were located not only in the capital of Austria, but also in Trieste, Milan, Prague, Lyon, Krakow and even in Bombay.
Unfortunately, Lviv innovators failed to patent their invention in a timely manner. Curiously, when the Austrian counterparts began to be sold in their homeland, in Lvov, they were called exclusively "Viennese".
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