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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.
On 23 September 1885, Carl Auer von Welsbach received a patent on the gas flame heated incandescent mantle light. [8] 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 ...
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.
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. Dietz also produced the majority of road work warning lights, the first of which were oil lanterns (with their Traffic-Gard trademark) and road torches which looked like cannonballs with ...
A power flash is a flash of light caused by arcing electrical discharges from damaged electrical equipment, most often severed or arcing power lines. They are often caused by strong winds, especially those from tropical cyclones and tornadoes, and occasionally by intense downbursts and derechoes.
Petromax is reliable and efficient light source but only with proper use and well maintained. Typical problems leading to malfunction of the lantern: Misuse (no sufficient pre-heating or forgetting to pressurise the fuel tank) Broken seals or loose joints or leakage in the container (pressure and/or fuel leaks at the wrong place)
A dyno torch, dynamo torch, or squeeze flashlight is a flashlight or pocket torch which generates energy via a flywheel.The user repeatedly squeezes a handle to spin a flywheel inside the flashlight, attached to a small generator/dynamo, supplying electric current to an incandescent bulb or light-emitting diode.
Solight Design's co-founder, Alice Chun, is an architecture professor interested in solar-powered light. As explained in Chun's 2016 TEDx talk, [4] in dealing with her son's asthma –about 10% of children in New York have asthma [5] –Chun realized that poor air quality caused by pollutants was a growing problem, motivating Chun to find ways to incorporate solar power into daily living.