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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.
Coleman fuel is used primarily for fueling lanterns and camp stoves. It is usually sold in one-gallon cans in the United States; [3] in Europe it is usually sold in one-litre bottles. [4] Originally, it was simply casing-head gas or drip gas, which has similar properties. Drip gas was sold commercially at gas stations and hardware stores in ...
The Pritchard-Strong Company of Rochester, NY, was a manufacturer of lanterns and other hardware specialties. [1] It was founded in 1905 by partners Albert R. Pritchard, Henry A. Strong, Henry G. Strong and Thomas B. Pritchard.
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.
An oil lamp is a lamp used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source. The use of oil lamps began thousands of years ago and continues to this day, although their use is less common in modern times.
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A deck prism, or bullseye, is a prism inserted into the deck of a ship to provide light down below. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For centuries, sailing ships used deck prisms to provide a safe source of natural sunlight to illuminate areas below decks .
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.