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R.E. Dietz Company was a lighting products manufacturer best known for its hot blast and cold blast kerosene lanterns. It was started 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 ...
Coleman Lantern. The Coleman Lantern is a line of pressure lamps first introduced by the Coleman Company in 1914. This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline. Current models use kerosene, gasoline, Coleman fuel ( white gas) or propane and use one or two mantles to produce an intense white light.
In 1919, Tilley High-Pressure Gas Company started using kerosene as a fuel for lamps. [13] In the 1920s, Tilley company got a contract to supply lamps to railways, and made domestic lamps. [12] During World War II, Armed Forces purchased quantities of lamps, thus many sailors, soldiers and airmen used a Tilley Lamp. [12]
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, known more commonly as Milwaukee Tool, is a multi-national company that develops, manufactures, and markets power tools, hand tools, tool accessories, tool storage, and personal protective equipment. [ 1] Milwaukee Tool was last sold in 2005 for $626.6 million to the Hong Kong -based Techtronic Industries ...
The Baumbach Building was designed by German architect Eugene R. Liebert, who was commissioned by Ernest Von Baumbach. It was built in the Third Ward, a former residential district which had been largely destroyed in an 1892 fire. In its place, a warehouse district emerged. The five-story building was started in 1899 and completed the next year.
Petromax 829/500CP, a paraffin pressure lantern. A Petromax lantern from the British colonial period at the Batticaloa Museum. Petromax is a brand name for a type of pressurised paraffin lamp ( US: kerosene lamp) that uses a mantle. They are as synonymous with the paraffin lamp in Continental Europe as Tilley lamps are in Britain and Coleman ...
Gregorio Borgia/AP. A massive IT outage caused massive disruptions across the world on Friday, impacting flights, banks and other major institutions. By Friday afternoon, it appears computer ...
Vapalux is a brand name for paraffin pressure lamps and lanterns (kerosene mantle lamps) developed and manufactured by Willis & Bates in Halifax, England, part of the United Kingdom. History [ edit ] As a company, Willis & Bates dates back to the 1800s, moving to Halifax in the last few years of that century to take advantage of the engineering ...