Ancient Flashlight - Upgoat - "what's upgoat?"

No, it's a lantern. They call it lantern everywhere in the world.
The Brits call a flashlight a torch because they were replacing actual torches. Sticks on fire you take at night to look for something/someone or to torch some witch's house down

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 4 points 9 hoursMay 10, 2025 02:50:45 ago (+4/-0)

Oh.

Flashlight.

Well this is awkward...

[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 10 points 6 hoursMay 10, 2025 05:43:33 ago (+10/-0)

Yeah that's neat, but I don't think that it would classify as "ancient"

[ - ] GreenSaint 2 points 6 hoursMay 10, 2025 05:44:17 ago (+2/-0)

I thought it was gonna be those old headlamps miners used. Calcium carbide

https://youtu.be/mARF7CETQp4?si=L0AVehycrppDSfhw

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[ - ] Panic 1 point 2 hoursMay 10, 2025 09:43:44 ago (+1/-0)

Kids could buy this back in the 1970's off of Pharmacy shelves. A teenager found out it could self ignite and built some low strength little bombs in baby food jars. Lots of entertainment for bored kids back then.

[ - ] Reunto 2 points 4 hoursMay 10, 2025 07:35:27 ago (+2/-0)

Lantern

[ - ] Ragnar 1 point 2 hoursMay 10, 2025 09:27:50 ago (+1/-0)

That's a lantern, bro

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 1 hourMay 10, 2025 10:51:06 ago (+0/-0)

Now do fleshlight!

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 55 minutesMay 10, 2025 11:13:54 ago (+0/-0)

https://www.wordcraft.net/flashlight.html

My parent had one like the candle one on this page (about 2/3rds down). It never worked though.

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