Do you know what wick trimmers are? Probably your great-grandmother had one or more pairs of them and used them daily. They are a kind of special scissors whose purpose is to trim the wicks on candles ...

IT was suggested to me by a friend to use a Nernst lamp in a lantern. On trying the experiment I have found that a one ampere 220 volts Nernst lamp gives quite a fair result in a small lantern, ...