Definitions for "Argand lamp"
A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
Oil lamp invented in Geneva c.1782 and widely made in the USA and Europe. From 1810 argand lamps were fitted with an adjustable burner.
An oil-burning lamp with a glass chimney, named for the Swiss physicist and inventor Aimé Argand (1750-1803), who invented the tubular wick burner in 1782. Argand lamps are efficient because the tubular wick feeds oxygen to the flame and the chimney increases the draft.