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Re: which vegetable oil was cultivated for lamp fuel?



In article <31E3CBBD.1264@sol.co.uk>, Shug <shug@sol.co.uk> writes
>Darcy Howard wrote:
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>> alanh@widomaker.com (Alan Horowitz) wrote:
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>> >Let me re-phrase the question, to attack it from a different angle.
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>> >Sperm whale oil replaced - which illumination fuel?
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>> A variety of vegetable oils were used for illumination both before and
>> after whale oils were used for that purpose.  Cheaper vegetable seed
>> oils was one of the factors leading to the decline of commercial
>> whaling.
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>> Mark Howard
>> hchpl@fhills.starway.netau
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>Until about 1800, hemp seed oil was the most consumed lighting oil in 
>America and the world. From then until the 1870's, it was the second most 
>consumed lighting oil, exceeded only by whale oil.
>(Burbank, Luther, "How Plants Are Trained To Work For Man, Useful 
>Plants", P.F.Collier & Son Co., NY, Vol 6, pg 48)
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>Shug

Spot on, Shug! 

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Aeolus Windpower Services
Cornwall, England 
Peter Rudd