Lanternist's pressurised spirit lamp.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Metal
Measurements
225 x 275 x 116 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525192
Summary
Lanternist's pressurised spirit lamp. The whole is mounted on a flat metal plate. The lamp height above the base is managed by a screw with a large knurled knob and collar on a post from the base. The lamp is a brass construction consisting a cylindrical reservoir with a filler cap and overflow pipe. The feed pipe exits from the bottom of the tank and passes to the front of the lamp where the pipe work becomes vertical. At the top the pipework reduces in diameter and passes back down to the burner which is constructed so that the brass burner and the incandescent mantle coated with rare earth would warm the last portion of pipework increasing the pressure of the evaporated spirit and increasing the effectiveness of the lamp.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986