Lighting Your Home With a Central Draft Lamp
Picking up an old central draft lamp at an antique shop is usually the start of a pretty fun obsession with Victorian engineering. If you've spent most of your life clicking a plastic switch on a wall, there's something incredibly satisfying about the mechanical nature of these things. Unlike a standard flat-wick lamp that gives off a flicker similar to a large candle, a central draft lamp is a whole different beast. It's designed to be bright, steady, and efficient, which is why they were the "high-tech" lighting solution for homes back in the late 1800s. ...