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This is the Fart Lamp from London This lamp was designed to pull gas out of the sewers and burn it. Burning on this street since the 1890s, it was designed both to get rid of the smell and to reduce the danger. In the 1800s, during the Victorian era, the city had a big smell problem. Engineer Joseph Edmund Webb invented this lamp. The lamp burned regular town gas. The heat of the flame (about 700 °F - 370 °C) created a chimney effect and pulled the gas from the sewer up through a pipe. A small dome in the ceiling of the sewer collected the gas and sent it to the lamp. The gas either burned or spread into the air above people’s heads. It both reduced the bad smell and lit up the street. That’s why it burned day and night. The lamp still burns 24 hours a day today. The last lamp left in London is on Carting Lane, next to the Savoy Hotel.