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  2. Rushlight - Wikipedia

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    [5] In New England, "rushlights were used little if at all in colonial days." [6] Rushlights should not be confused with rush-candles, although the latter word is attested for the same thing earlier in the 1590s. [7] A rush-candle is an ordinary candle (a block or cylinder of tallow or wax) that uses a piece of rush as a wick. [8]

  3. History of street lighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The earliest street lights in the colonial America were oil lamps burning whale oil from the Greenland or Arctic right whales of the North Atlantic, or from sperm whales of the South Atlantic, South Pacific, and beyond. [1] [3] Lamplighters were responsible for igniting the lamps and maintaining them. [3]

  4. Sconce (light fixture) - Wikipedia

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    An electric sconce in the lobby of a luxury hotel. A sconce or wall light is a decorative light fixture that is mounted to a wall. [1] The sconce is a very old form of fixture, historically used with candles and oil lamps. They can provide general room lighting, and are common in hallways and corridors, but they may be mostly decorative. [1]

  5. Oil lamp - Wikipedia

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    They work in the same way as a candle but with fuel that is liquid at room temperature, so that a container for the oil is required. A textile wick drops down into the oil, and is lit at the end, burning the oil as it is drawn up the wick. Oil lamps are a form of lighting, and were used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric ...

  6. Chandelier - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch brass chandeliers have distinctive features – a large brass sphere at the end of a central ball stem, and six curved low-swooping arms. The globe helps to keep the chandelier upright and reflect the light from candles, and the arms are curved downward to bring the candles to the level of the sphere to allow for maximum reflection. [38]

  7. This Cozy Colonial Looks Straight Out of a Nancy Meyers ...

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    Understated holiday touches—velvet bows on the Vaughan sconces, a tureen of branches and pepper berries—keep focus on the architecture. A lush garland of cedar, cypress, fir, pine, magnolia ...

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