Lantern
2 of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Lantern. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or LANTHORN (lan'a heap turn), a common contrivance used for carrying a lamp or candle in, consisting Eski case or vessel made of tin, with of some transparent substance, of tin, with horn or glass. Lanterns are Int substance, spoken of by Theopompus, a Greek Lanterns are poet, and Empedocles of Agrigenepus, & Greek Lanterns were used by the ans of Agrigenin augury. The only representaby the anan Egyptian lantern that has My representadown to us probably did not differ fern that has from those spoken of in St. John did not differ , where the party of men which of in St. John out of Jerusalem to apprehend of men which in the garden of Gethsemane is deto apprehend as being provided " with lanterns semane is de with lantern architecture, a small structure on of a dome, or in other similar structure o , for the purpose of admitting other simila promoting ventilation, or for ornaof admittin of which that on the top of the or for orn at Washington may be referred to he top of t example. In Gothic architecture be referred is sometimes applied to louvres architectu roofs of halls, etc., but it usually fied to louv a tower which has the whole but it usua or a considerable portion of the as the wh , open to view from the ground, bortion of lighted by an upper tier of winn the grou tier of
The Encyclopedia of Founding (1892)
A term applied to a temporary drying apparatus for moulds during their course of construction. It is oftentimes called a lamp or drying-kettle. See DRYING-KETTLE.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's described a lantern in 1921 as "a case or vessel made of tin, with sides of some transparent substance, horn or glass" for carrying a lamp or candle, the battery-powered hand torch was already on sale — Conrad Hubert's company had been selling portable electric flashlights since about 1899 — and within a generation it displaced the flame lantern almost entirely for everyday use. Today the candle or kerosene lantern survives mainly as camping gear, decoration and emergency stock, while the working equivalent is an LED torch or headlamp running for many hours on a small battery. The architectural sense Collier's gives — the glazed structure on top of a dome, as on the Capitol at Washington — is unchanged and still used by architects. The Encyclopedia of Founding's sense, a drying apparatus or "drying-kettle" for moulds, has vanished with the practice: modern foundries use gas or electric core ovens and chemically self-setting sands that need no open-flame drying.
Written for this edition, 2026.