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The company was founded in 1840 when its founder, 22-year-old Robert Edwin Dietz, purchased a lamp and oil business in Brooklyn, New York. Though famous for well-built indoor and outdoor kerosene lanterns, it was a major player in the automotive lighting industry from the 1920s into the 1960s.
A late antique oil lamp showing a human figure identified as Christ. Early Christian and late antique oil lamps were diverse. One of the most notable ones were Mediterranean sigillata (“African”) lamps. The motifs were largely geometric, vegetative and graphic (monograms), with figural depiction of animals and human figures, often Christ. [13]
In New York, more than 1,600 oil lamps were in use as city street lights in 1809. [1] The city had started using spermaceti oil, which burned more brightly than candles, in its street lamps from as early as 1792. [1] Philadelphia was close behind during this period, with 1,100 street lamps. [1]
An Argand lamp in use in A Portrait of James Peale, done in 1822 by Charles Willson Peale Argand lamp with circular wick and glass chimney. Illustration from Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1869) by Louis Figuier. The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand.
In 1914, the Coleman Lantern, a similar pressure lamp was introduced by the US Coleman Company. [9] [10] [11] In 1915, during World War I, the Tilley company moved to Brent Street in Hendon, and began developing a kerosene pressure lamp. [12] In 1919, Tilley High-Pressure Gas Company started using kerosene as a fuel for lamps. [13]
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