previous next


Economical light

--The C. S. patent lard, tallow, or grease lamp, invented by Mr. D. Hagerty, of this city, is one of the most valuable inventions for families that has yet been brought to the notice of the Southern public. The lamp is composed of a tin cylinder, which fits upon an unright wooden stand. At the upper end of the cylinder is a small tin table for holding the wick which is removable at pleasure. The cylinder is filled with tallow or lard and placed over the upright stand. When the wick is lighted it will burn ten hours, diffusing more light than a candle, and costing about one-fourth as much. Mr. Hagerty has patented his invention, and we are quite sure every family deprived of gas will look upon him as a public benefactor.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
D. Hagerty (2)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: