• Thumbnail for Kerosene lamp
    A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene lamps have a wick...
    22 KB (2,688 words) - 23:22, 7 August 2024
  • of kerosene through extracting and purifying petroleum and then converted it into lamp fuel. The Chinese made use of petroleum for lighting lamps and...
    56 KB (6,417 words) - 15:14, 6 September 2024
  • The Tilley lamp is a kerosene pressure lamp. In 1813, John Tilley invented the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe. In 1818, William Henry Tilley, gas fitters, was...
    8 KB (574 words) - 20:30, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil lamp
    lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form. These in turn were replaced by the kerosene lamp in about 1850. In small towns...
    33 KB (4,258 words) - 12:12, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar lamp
    other light sources like candles or kerosene lamps. Solar lamps have a lower operating cost than kerosene lamps because renewable energy from the sun...
    15 KB (1,677 words) - 06:41, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petromax
    Petromax (redirect from Petromax lamp)
    their pressurised kerosene lamp (US: kerosene lamp) that uses a incandescent mantle. They are as synonymous with the paraffin lamp in Continental Europe...
    4 KB (602 words) - 22:02, 9 September 2024
  • Look up LAMP or lamp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lamp, Lamps or LAMP may refer to: Oil lamp, using an oil-based fuel source Kerosene lamp, using...
    3 KB (413 words) - 20:15, 11 September 2024
  • (disambiguation) Kerosene lamp Pressurised-burner stoves Naphtha This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kerosene. If an internal...
    854 bytes (123 words) - 11:26, 5 February 2023
  • generating bright light when heated by a flame Kerosene lamp – Type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel Lantern – Portable lighting devices...
    10 KB (1,513 words) - 18:15, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lantern
    Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia Lantern in Wuppertal, Germany Station kerosene lamp at Rizhsky station railway museum, Moscow, Russia, 19th c. The derived...
    25 KB (2,911 words) - 17:47, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ignacy Łukasiewicz
    to distill kerosene from seep crude oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853)...
    11 KB (1,229 words) - 20:46, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Street light
    Street light (redirect from Street lamp)
    statistics. Kerosene streetlamps were invented by Polish pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, in 1853. His kerosene lamps were later...
    69 KB (7,837 words) - 16:47, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Argand lamp
    as theatrical footlights. It was the lamp of choice until about 1850 when kerosene lamps were introduced. Kerosene was cheaper than vegetable oil, it produced...
    5 KB (631 words) - 16:06, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Light fixture
    Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
    Betty lamp, butter lamp, carbide lamp, gas lighting, kerosene lamp, oil lamp, rush light, torch, candle, Limelight, gas mantle Safety lamps: Davy lamp and...
    13 KB (1,497 words) - 16:33, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Compact fluorescent lamp
    pp. 550–555. doi:10.1109/EPC.2007.4520391. 200 0000+ solar powered kerosene-lamp replacements assisted by aid agencies: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/mpgvm...
    77 KB (8,198 words) - 10:35, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kerosene heater
    Most kerosene heaters produce between 3.3 and 6.8 kilowatts (11,000 and 23,000 BTU/h). A kerosene heater operates much like a large kerosene lamp. A circular...
    9 KB (1,310 words) - 23:10, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gas mantle
    Gas mantle (redirect from Mantle lamp)
    Candoluminescence Coleman lantern Clamond basket Gas lighting Kerosene lamp Aladdin Mantle Lamp Co. H. F. Ivey (1974). "Candoluminescence and radical-excited...
    13 KB (1,659 words) - 07:34, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sodium-vapor lamp
    A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties...
    27 KB (3,186 words) - 14:45, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aladdin (containers)
    International, LLC of Seattle, Washington and Aladdin continues to be a kerosene lamps and wicks products brand and is owned by Hattersley Aladdin Ltd of the...
    6 KB (746 words) - 04:08, 4 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lighthouse
    early lighthouses, the light source was a kerosene lamp or, earlier, an animal or vegetable oil Argand lamp, and the lenses rotated by a weight driven...
    44 KB (5,013 words) - 12:15, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Signal lamp
    the latter was subsequently adopted. Another signalling lamp was the Begbie lamp, a kerosene lamp with a lens to focus the light over a long distance. During...
    8 KB (950 words) - 07:54, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coal oil
    Coal oil (redirect from Coal oil lamps)
    9 January 2011. Maris, Clarence (1921). "Lesson 4, The Coal Oil or Kerosene Lamp.". Dangers and chemistry of fire, for grammar schools. Columbus, Ohio:...
    9 KB (886 words) - 09:11, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fuel
    which was then distilled. Rāzi also gave the first description of a kerosene lamp using crude mineral oil, referring to it as the "naffatah". The streets...
    32 KB (3,503 words) - 00:15, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for GravityLight
    GravityLight (category Types of lamp)
    gravity-powered lamp manufactured until 2019. It was designed by the company Deciwatt for use in developing or third-world nations, as a replacement for kerosene lamps...
    10 KB (1,023 words) - 00:59, 30 June 2024
  • kerosene lamps and lanterns. During the 1860s, the major glass factory in West Virginia could not produce enough lamps to meet demand. Kerosine lamps...
    43 KB (3,886 words) - 04:01, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petroleum
    how to distill kerosene from seep oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853)...
    131 KB (14,536 words) - 19:48, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electrolux
    The Autoluxlamp, a kerosene lamp manufactured by Lux and used in railway stations around the world in the early 20th century...
    31 KB (2,358 words) - 05:35, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for LED lamp
    An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient...
    78 KB (7,859 words) - 21:40, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ehrich & Graetz
    sun between them, and the firm's initials of E&G. In the beginning kerosene lamps along with burners, as well as cookers for fluid (wood alcohol, paraffin)...
    5 KB (520 words) - 02:34, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gorlice
    prosperity after its 1854–1858 resident Ignacy Lukasiewicz invented the kerosene lamp in 1853. In a few years, sprawling oil wells emerged in Gorlice, and...
    18 KB (2,139 words) - 10:14, 7 September 2024