And for CyberJack,
The inventor of these stoves, Gustav Dalen, also invented several important items for lighthouse main lanterns, which made unmanned navigation lights and lighthouses possible!
He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912 for one of them, the Sun Valve.
An article:
http://www.lighthouses.org.au/lights/Bulletin/0612/restoring_artefacts.htmHe was also the inventor of the process still used today, which made it possible to store acetylene in cylinders under elevated pressure. This basically consists of dissolving the gas in liquid acetone held in a porous solid matrix. So a very big influence on the development of oxy-acetylene welding, and even more importantly, flame cutting.
As an example, prior to flame cutting, the portholes in thick armour plate for warships had to be chipped out by hand with cold chisels, with only a slight preheat from blowtorches to aid the process.
Edit: To illustrate how big an improvement this was, when the US Navy's Brooklyn yard changed to flame cutting around 1907, a single 14" porthole in 3" armour plate could be cut in under 30 minutes. This was a job that had taken a seven-man team [5 chippers, 2 kero blowtorch operators] 10 days or more!
