Skip to main content

Agitable lamps

Scope note

Lamps with usually one or two vertical wick tubes projecting from a tightly closed reservoir. From the patent of John Miles of Birmingham, England, 1787; so called because the fuel is protected from spillage when agitated.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300037612

Broader Terms used

vertical wick lamps

Equivalent Terms used

agitable lamp

Created

13yrs ago

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Terminology definition for: agitable lamps" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/terminology/term-70744 Accessed: 2024-12-19 17:44:53

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/terminology/term-70744|title=Terminology definition for: agitable lamps|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-19 17:44:53|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/terminology/term-70744

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...