Lantern is a word describing two items in the Laura Bow Series
The Colonel's Bequest[]
The lantern can be found in the Stable. To light it, one requires a match.
The Dagger of Amon Ra[]
The lantern can be found in a glass emergency cabinet in the basement hall of the Leyendecker Museum, near Wolf Heimlich's Office and the Alcoholic Preservation Lab. It is a Ruhmkorf lantern, which is activated by a hand crank. It is required to enter the secret passages in the museum and survive.
The lantern is powered by a Ruhmkorf Coil (named after its discoverer, M. Ruhmkorf)). It consists of a coil of copper wire, insulated by a silk covering, surrounded by another coil of fine insulated wire in which a momentary current is induced when a current is passed through the inner coil from a voltaic battery, charged by a hand crank. When the apparatus is in action, the gas becomes luminous, producing a white and continued light. The lantern will burn beneath the deepest waters, and safely among flammable gases.
Known as a good spelunking lantern, Olympia Myklos carried one similar to it when she explored the Caves of Howling Death in Tibet.