Primus kerosene stove
The pressure stove that vaporised paraffin and became the expeditions’ cooker.
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, a mechanic in Stockholm, designed a burner in which paraffin was vaporised by the flame and burned with a blue fire. The stove was easy to carry and did not burn wood.
The firm B.A. Hjorth & Co. began to sell the stove under the name Primus. It went with expeditions to the poles and the mountains, and Roald Amundsen took one to the South Pole.
Materials: Brass and steel
Manufacture: Invented by Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist in Stockholm in 1892 and made by B.A. Hjorth & Co.
The brass tank into which pressure is pumped.
The burner with small holes.
The steel pot holder.