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Introduction to Interior Lamps

Whilst street lighting was the first type of gas lighting manufactured by William Sugg, it had been clearly demonstrated that the interior lighting of commercial buildings offered financial advantages through increasing the length of the working day and improving the viability of many processes that required better lighting. 

Domestic lighting was not considered as important because the existing oil lamps and candles provided sufficient light for the simple life that existed in most homes.  The new street lighting had even provided additional light to the upstairs bedrooms of many houses so that the candlelight required to see the way to bed could be extinguished once the room was reached.  In addition, the lighting in the largest of houses and mansions had by this stage achieved a sort of 'status' using oil with 'lamp rooms' for cleaning and filling the oil reservoirs and staff trained to the tasks.  Gas was considered 'infra dig' as being for the masses and clearly unsuitable for the lighting of the interior in the 'better' houses!

The Christiania and Argand interior fixtures - as opposed to just the burners shown in the 'burners' section provides an indication of the hugely successful design ability of the Sugg company.
The Cromartie is another design masterpiece as well as an entirely different form of gas lighting.

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