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2. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   1875 Henry Woodward patents an electric light bulb. 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris. 1879 (About Christmas time) Col. R. E. Crompton illuminated his home in Porchester Gardens, using a primary battery of Grove Cells, then a generator which was better ...

3. Yankee Candle - Wikipedia

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   Yankee Candle flagship store in Deerfield, MA. Yankee Candle's flagship store, which opened in 1982, is located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.It features all available Yankee Candles as well as kitchen and home accessories, New England crafts, gifts and collectibles, a toy shop, picnic grounds and a "Bavarian Christmas Village" filled with decorated Christmas trees and a toy train that ...

4. Lantern - Wikipedia

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   A lantern is a source of lighting, often portable. It typically features a protective enclosure for the light source – historically usually a candle, a wick in oil, or a thermoluminescent mesh, and often a battery-powered light in modern times – to make it easier to carry and hang up, and make it more reliable outdoors or in drafty interiors.

5. Safety lamp - Wikipedia

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   The light given out by these lamps was poor (particularly Davy's, obscured by the gauze); early lamps gave less light than candles. [23] This was not resolved until the introduction of electric lighting around 1900, and the introduction of battery-powered helmet lamps in 1930.

6. Kerosene lamp - Wikipedia

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   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 or mantle as light source, protected by a glass chimney or globe; lamps may be used on a table, or hand-held lanterns may be used for portable lighting.

7. Flameless candle - Wikipedia

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   As a decorative element, the design of a flameless candle is relatively versatile. The body or "housing" of the device is commonly cylindrical, containing a battery pack and an often flame-shaped LED lamp atop the candle. Many manufactures use LED lights with a sporadic twinkling or flickering effect to simulate the calming glow of an actual flame.