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Using Calcium Carbide and water to produce Acetylene gas is a very neat part of history that is still used today. Unfortunately modern society and education has fallen so far few know about what used to light our way.
Carbide Lamp/Candles is a good search term for this.
Using Calcium Carbide and water to produce Acetylene gas is a very neat part of history that is still used today. Unfortunately modern society and education has fallen so far few know about what used to light our way.
Carbide Lamp/Candles is a good search term for this.
My mother used to display an acetylene miner's lamp that my great grandfather used in the mines.
My mother used to display an acetylene miner's lamp that my great grandfather used in the mines.
I learned about them from my great grandfather, he had a carbide torch he showed me when he was soldering something when I was a tiny little lad.
I learned about them from my great grandfather, he had a carbide torch he showed me when he was soldering something when I was a tiny little lad.
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