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2. Kerosene lamp - Wikipedia

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   A kerosene lantern, also known as a "barn lantern" or "hurricane lantern", is a flat-wick lamp made for portable and outdoor use. They are made of soldered or crimped-together sheet-metal stampings, with tin-plated sheet steel being the most common material, followed by brass and copper. There are three types: dead-flame, hot-blast, and cold-blast.

3. 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.

4. R. E. Dietz Company - Wikipedia

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   R. E. Dietz Co., Ltd. (formerly R. E. Dietz Company) is a lighting products manufacturer best known for its hot blast and cold blast kerosene lanterns. 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 .

5. Argand lamp - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   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. He gave special parties and illuminated his drawing ...

7. Flameless candle - Wikipedia

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   Flameless candles display flickering light, simulating real flames. 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 ...