From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alec.muffett@gmail.com (Alec Muffett) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:17:52 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Anyone know what a LANTERN is In-Reply-To: <201707301114.v6UBEEmc029284@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201707301114.v6UBEEmc029284@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: Dumb question: is there any chance that just as BEL goes , perhaps LAMP illuminated a red warning light or similar? On 30 Jul 2017 12:14 pm, "Doug McIlroy" wrote: > I have no actual information about the lantern character, but > a tapered "storm lantern" would be far down my list of guesses. > The tapered chmney would much more likely be called a "lamp", > for it's a standard shape for the oil (kerosene) lamps > that everyone had before electricity. > > My top guess would be a carriage lantern with a Japanese > garden ornament as a distant second. The carriage lantern > would be an unfilled circle superimposed on a vertical > rectangle, filled or unfilled. The rectangle might be > simplified to two (interrupted) vertical sides. > > An alternate form of lantern would be a side view of > a carriage (or picture-projection) lantern, schematized > as a box, with a flaring projection to the right--an > icon for shining light on a subject, also interpretable > as a movie camera. > > A Japanese lantern would be tripartite: cap, body, and > feet. > > Do any of these possibilities ring a bell? > > Doug > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: