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    A Bude-Light was a very bright oil lamp (later, in its modified form, a gas lamp) invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, patented by him on 8 June 1839 and...
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    Bude (/bjuːd/; Standard Written Form: Porthbud) is a seaside town in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and...
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    and later applied its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude-Light; developed a series of early steam-powered road vehicles; and laid claim—still...
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  • Guillaume Budé (1467–1540), a French scholar Bude-Light, an oil lamp named after the English town Bude Canal Bude railway station This disambiguation page...
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    Argand lamp (redirect from Argand light)
    eliminating the need for complicated mechanisms to feed the fuel to the burner. Bude-Light: a very bright vegetable oil lamp that works by introducing oxygen into...
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    Gas lighting (redirect from Gas light)
    William Congreve, 2nd Baronet as general manager. The 1839 invention, the Bude-Light, provided a brighter and more economical lamp. Oil-gas appeared in the...
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  • concrete, and were unveiled in 1989. "The Bude Light", designed by Vincent and Anthony Fanshawe, was commissioned by Bude-Stratton Town Council. It was unveiled...
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    with the utmost safety. Gurney went on to employ the principles in his Bude light. In glassblowing, the term blowpipe refers to a pipe used to blow a bubble...
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    gentleman scientist and surgeon Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, who invented the Bude-Light, lived in Wadebridge from 1814 to 1820. A street (Goldsworthy Way) has...
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  • The Okehampton–Bude line was a railway line built to serve Holsworthy in Devon, and Bude on the Cornish coast near the Devon border in England. The line...
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