Cooper Hewitt lamp

noun

An early mercury-vapour lamp.

Meanings

nounCooper Hewitt lamp (plural Cooper Hewitt lamps)

plural Cooper Hewitt lamps

  1. historicalAn early mercury-vapour lamp.

Origin

Invented by Peter Cooper Hewitt.

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