Show owe lamp chimney to child the comfortable and convenient lamp chimney of ever every day use is to be attributed to a child s restlessness argand a native nathe of switzerland a poor man indented a lamp the wick of which was fitted into a hollow cylinder that allowed a current of air to oxygen to the interior as well as the exterior of the cir edlar fiame flame the lan ian p was a success but its inventor had never thought of adding alding a glass chimney and probably never would mould have tho ight of it had not his little brother been i iab la in in his wort worl room while argand was imaged with the b arning lamp th the wa bo had gained possession of an old bottomless flask and was amusing himself by putting it over the top of the lamp and the flame Instant iv resi by shooting with increased brill ance up the nar ro N v neck of the alas argand s ready brain at once caught the idea and it s lamp was I 1 perfected by the addition of a glass cl el in ney |