How is a gas lantern made?
Background A gas lantern is a lightweight, portable device that supplies bright, efficient light while protecting its contents from wind and rain. Rural dwellers and outdoorsmen alike have relied on variations of the modern gas lantern for roughly 100 years, allowing access to barns, cabins, campgrounds, and wooded paths beyond the daylight hours. This style of lantern is more practical than its ancestors because it operates on the principle of incandescence– rather, it relies on light produced by heat. The heated mantles in a gas lantern emit far more light than the flame of an oil lamp, therefore providing better visibility in a larger area. Mantles are chemically saturated fabric shells that, when heated by the lantern’s flame, become a powerful source of white light– up to 300 candlepower, or the rough equivalent of a 300-watt bulb. History For an untold number of years, the open flame was humankind’s only source of controlled light. Early ceramic lamps dating back to the Roman e
