by HighAndMightyColor
Gas lanterns are considered the brightest of the fuel lanterns because they use mantles that appreciably radiate visible light once they are heated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlGwNg4zo4
Besides gas lanterns, those mantles were also apparently used on Aladdin lamps that burned liquid fuels.
However, I have yet to see those mantles used with historical fuels like vegetable oils and animal fat.
Were the vegetable oil lanterns ever experimented with the gas mantles? What is the required operating temperature for those mantles anyways? If the mantles were indeed used on vegetable oil lanterns, did the light output dulled faster than the ones used on gas lanterns?
There aren't that many historical-lanterns specific forums out there so I hope that there are some very knowledgeable people here who could help me (if somewhat). Am I right in presuming that the individual histories of railroads, minings, and non-electrical lamps are deeply interconnected?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlGwNg4zo4
Besides gas lanterns, those mantles were also apparently used on Aladdin lamps that burned liquid fuels.
However, I have yet to see those mantles used with historical fuels like vegetable oils and animal fat.
Were the vegetable oil lanterns ever experimented with the gas mantles? What is the required operating temperature for those mantles anyways? If the mantles were indeed used on vegetable oil lanterns, did the light output dulled faster than the ones used on gas lanterns?
There aren't that many historical-lanterns specific forums out there so I hope that there are some very knowledgeable people here who could help me (if somewhat). Am I right in presuming that the individual histories of railroads, minings, and non-electrical lamps are deeply interconnected?