Drummond light
The lime-light, or oxyhydrogen light (invented by Capt. T. Drummond, R.E., c 1825), wherein a blow-pipe flame, e.g. of combined oxygen and hydrogen, impinges on a piece of pure lime, and renders it incandescent.
| 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc., Chem. 298 The combination evolves what is..known as the Drummond Light. 1870 J. C. Geikie Life (ed. 3) 211 Wisdom thinks, and makes a solar Drummond light of a point of dull lime. |