I read this article “glass bottle oil lamp” at instructables dot com. This explain us about making a small decorative oil lamp out of an empty glass bottle with screw-on metal lid. Yes, it’s really great I think. The instructions are so detail that we can understand and practice it easily. The making of a glass bottle oil lamp is cheap, easy, and possibly romantic, it’s said. You just filled the lamp with half water and half oil, and the oil lamp can be used for several hours depending on its size. You can find all of the materials directly at instructables dot com. Of course you can also...
I rewrite this structure and function of oil lamps from wikipedia. As we know that oil lamps were used not only for lighting, but also for funerary and votive purposes. We can find oil Lamps in homes, temples and other public buildings. The age and locality of the lamps, and also the culture and social status of oil lamp users can be determined from the designs, symbols, structure and decorations, and the material of which it is made. Oil lamps were made from a wide variety of media like gold, bronze, silver, stone and terra-cotta. Of course I’m interested with the gold oil lamps. I can imagine...
I’m sure that you have ever seen many kind of oil lamps. So the simple question is what an oil lamp is? I think it’s a very easy question to be answered. Well, an oil lamp is a simple vessel used to produce light continuously for a period of time from a fuel source (Wikipedia). Yes, a simple vessel to produce light from a fuel source. I have two oil lamps at home, the traditional oil lamps. Those lamps help us when there is no electricity. The size of the small lamp is about 5 x 15 cm, while the big one is about 7 x 20 cm. Each of them has a small wheel that when turned, moves the wick up...