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Welsbach Tip Tray
- 1920s
… head. Around the border of the tray is printed "Welsbach Assures Dependable Lighting Service" with two lamps depicted on opposite sides. A seal at the top reads "Welsbach/Our Trademark/On Every Box". Tip trays were typically small, approximately … the Welsbach gas mantle, a device made of fibers impregnated with oxides of thorium…
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18 items
The Welsbach Light Catalog
- 1896
…This is a reprint of promotional booklet produced by the Welsbach Company about the history of its light. The booklet was reprinted … historic lighting. In the 1880s, Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which …to an international trade in rare earth ores, especially monazite. Welsbach managed firms around the world that sold gas lamps for lighting streets…
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55 items
Welsbach Gas Light Company photograph album
- 1920s
…photographs documenting various aspects of the production process at the Welsbach Gas Light Company site located along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey. From 1888 to 1940, the Welsbach Gas Light Company held exclusive manufacturing and sales rights to the Welsbach gas mantle, a device made of fibers impregnated with oxides of thorium…
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74 items
Welsbach System of Incandescent Gas Lighting Catalog
- 1889
…The Welsbach company produced this pamphlet around 1889 to promote its system of …incandescent mantels are superior to previous gas light technologies. Welsbach claimed its system was cleaner-burning, produced a more pleasant quality …oxygen as it burned. In the 1880s, Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which…
- Creator Of Work Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Publisher Edward Stern & Co.
- Subject Incandescent lamps, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting, Rare earth industry, Rare earths, Welsbach Gas Light Company, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Interior lighting, Factories
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2 items
Carl Auer von Welsbach Cigarette Trading Card
- 1890 – 1930
…Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) was a key figure in the history of rare earth elements …praseodymium and neodymium. He later separated lutetium from ytterbium. Welsbach developed incandescent gas mantles for interior and street lighting …, the first industrial product to use the rare earth elements. The Welsbach companies gave him a degree of international fame, reflected in his…
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Exterior view of Welsbach Gas Light Company facility
- 1920s
…Photographic reproduction of an artist's rendering of the Welsbach Gas Light Company site located along the Delaware River in Gloucester City, New Jersey. From 1888 to 1940, the Welsbach Gas Light Company held exclusive manufacturing and sales rights to the Welsbach gas mantle, a device made of fibers impregnated with oxides of thorium…
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47 items
Set of Postcards depicting the Welsbach Factory in Gloucester, New Jersey
- 1890 – 1930
…This set of postcards depicts the scenes from the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lighting Company factory at Gloucester, New Jersey … production process. In the 1880s, Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which …to an international trade in rare earth ores, especially monazite. Welsbach managed firms around the world that sold gas lamps for lighting streets…
- Contributor Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Employees, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Lighting, Rare earth industry, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Women employees, Rare earths, Machinery in the workplace, Machinery
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6 items
No. 4 Inverted Mantle with No. 8 Magnesia Ring
- 1890 – 1930
…Unused Welsbach No. 4 Inverted Mantle and No. 8 Magnesia Ring in its original cardboard … elements. Welsbach mantels were sewn and then packed into cardboard tubes for shipping … of mantels compatible with Welsbach products until the mid-1930s. …
- Creator Of Work Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Contributor Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929
- Subject Lighting--Equipment and supplies, Incandescent lamps, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting, Rare earth industry, Welsbach Gas Light Company, Rare earths
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Healthful Effect of Gas Light Advertisement
- 1923
…air inside buildings. In the 1880s, Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which …to an international trade in rare earth ores, especially monazite. Welsbach managed firms around the world that sold gas lamps for lighting streets …inhabited from the 1890s into the 1930s. In the United States, the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Lighting Company had offices on Walnut Street in …
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24 items
Reflex Inverted Gas Light Catalog
- 1890 – 1930
…Welsbach aimed its Reflex line at the middle of the gas mantle market, priced …models like the Number 4 mantle. Images in this catalog illustrate Welsbach's imagined consumers, including middle class white women using gas …above billiards tables. In the 1880s, Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which…
- Creator Of Work Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Rare earth industry, Rare earths, Advertising, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Gas-lighting, Interior lighting, Interior lighting--Design
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This is Too Bad, Makes Night & Day Alike!
- 1901-Sep-14
…This 1901 advertisement for the British branch of the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Company features an owl swooping through the … incandescent lamps. In the 1880s, Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which …to an international trade in rare earth ores, especially monazite. Welsbach managed firms around the world that sold gas lamps for lighting streets…
- Publisher Illustrated London news
- Contributor Welsbach Gas Light Company
- Subject Welsbach Gas Light Company, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Incandescent gas-lighting, Incandescent gas-lighting--Fixtures, Gas-lighting, Street lighting, Light pollution, Lighting, Rare earth industry, Rare earth metals
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Erfinder und Erfindungen
- Inventors and Inventions
- 1913
…includes a frontispiece portrait of Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929), a key figure in the history of rare earth elements. In 1885 Welsbach showed didymium was not an element, but an alloy of two elements that …. He later separated lutetium from ytterbium. In the 1880s, von Welsbach created fabric impregnated with thorium and cerium, which glowed incandescently…
- Author Neuburger, Albert, 1867-1943
- Publisher Ullstein GmbH
- Subject Inventors, Inventions, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Auer v. Welsbach, Carl (Auer von Welsbach), 1858-1929, Neuburger, Albert, 1867-1943, Incandescent lamps, Welsbach Gas Light Company, Rare earth industry, Rare earths, Incandescent gas-lighting
