Crockery & glass journal . Fig. 5. line. Peter Keir finally invented a great method forits day by adding to the oil a fluid whose specificgravity was so much greater that the oil easily rose totbe top. The real lamp, as we know it to-day, came withthe practical use of petroleum—rock oil, as the Ro-mans called it, from the circumstance of seeing itooze out of rocks in the Indian Islands. But theRomans, as well as people long after their day, didntknow what it really waE, and used it as medicine. authority for the statement there were fixed streetlights in Antioch. and there is no doubt but that
Crockery & glass journal . Fig. 5. line. Peter Keir finally invented a great method forits day by adding to the oil a fluid whose specificgravity was so much greater that the oil easily rose totbe top. The real lamp, as we know it to-day, came withthe practical use of petroleum—rock oil, as the Ro-mans called it, from the circumstance of seeing itooze out of rocks in the Indian Islands. But theRomans, as well as people long after their day, didntknow what it really waE, and used it as medicine. authority for the statement there were fixed streetlights in Antioch. and there is no doubt but that theywere the first street lights in the world. At any rate,they were not in England until about 1414, when, byorder, the merchants of London were compelled tohang lanterns outside their doors at night. A similarorder was made at the The Hague in 1553. Francecame along after that, and it was in Paris that streetlights were first maintained at general rather than in-dividual expense. When gas was brought into gen-.
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