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  • Marble urns and vases, and lamps. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • The salt mines at Dürrenberg: men with lamps are sliding down into the mine. Etching.
  • A shopkeeper selling earthen diyas (lamps) (?) to a man. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Basilica of Saint Peter, Vatican: the church and the colonnade, lit by lamps at night. Coloured etching.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: sculptures, ornaments and lamps manufactured by Koenig & Lengsfeld. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Chinese pavilion: decorative furniture, lamps and other interior decorations. Photograph, 1904.
  • Lampas: or, descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & waterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries / Made by Robert Hooke.
  • Great Exhibition, London, 1851: the exhibition stand of Matifat showing gilt bronze lamps, vases, clocks and other ornaments. Wood engraving after H. Anelay, 1851.
  • The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.
  • A woman is passing a shop selling oil lamps and is knocked off her feet by the blast of an explosion. Etching by Richard Dighton.
  • Early types of Electric lightning. Top A. Edison's bamboo carbon filament lamps (1880-1 type); bottom left B. Tablochkov's electric candle (1876); bottom right C. Swan's original Newcastle Carbon Rod Electric lamp (1878).
  • Nepal; yak transport in the Khumbu, 1986. Sherpas drive a pair of heavily laden yaks along a narrow path on the long climb from Lukla (altitude 2827 metres) to Namche Bazar (3446 metres), the main town in the Khumbu region. The yak is the beast of burden in the Khumbu as well as providing wool, milk, cheese and butter. Yak butter is burned in votive lamps and drunk in tea. The animals command a high price and are carefully nurtured by their owners.
  • Leucodescent lamp, Devonshire hospital, Buxton.
  • M0006582: Phallic Roman lamp
  • Quartz mercury vapour lamp, 1906.
  • Meritor drip-feed vapor lamp.
  • Actina - The Portable Sun lamp.
  • Guy's Hospital Bicentenary: Finsen lamp treatment.
  • Actina - The Portable Sun lamp.
  • Actina - The Portable Sun lamp.
  • Actina - The Portable Sun lamp.
  • A vignette of a woman inhaling from a small lamp - advertising the 'asthmatic lamp'. Woodcut and letterpress, 1843.
  • A vignette of a woman inhaling from a small lamp - advertising the 'asthmatic lamp'. Woodcut and letterpress, 1843.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • The "Eclipse" radiant heat hand lamp / Stanley Cox Ltd.
  • A drunk cyclist who has driven into a lamp-post exclaims that the lamp-post had suddenly appeared there; a traffic warden replies sarcastically that the lamp post was drunk. Colour lithograph after H. de Kort for Veilig Verkeer Nederland, ca. 1996.
  • Actina - The Portable Sun lamp. Produced by Perihel Ltd, London
  • Victor Head Lamp. Fig. 151, page 348, 'Dental Electricity' by Levitt E Custer, 1901.
  • Florence Nightingale as the lady with the lamp. Oil painting attributed to J. Butterworth.
  • An ancient oil lamp: a relief on the lid shows two boys. Process print, 1921.