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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 This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline.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.
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.
August 8, 2024 at 6:04 AM. In a vote that puts University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee faculty at odds with their chancellor, the Faculty Senate rejected a proposal to lay off nearly three dozen tenured ...
John Pritzlaff Hardware Company. 305-333 N. Plankinton & 143, 155, W. St. Paul Aves. / 43.034337; -87.911977. The John Pritzlaff Hardware Company is a complex of Italianate -styled buildings built from 1875 to 1919, a remnant of what was for years the largest wholesale hardware business in Milwaukee and the region.
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 ...
History. In 1813, John Tilley invented the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe. [ 3] In 1818, William Henry Tilley, gas fitters, was manufacturing gas lamps in Stoke Newington, and, in the 1830s, in Shoreditch. [citation needed] In 1846, Abraham Pineo Gesner invented coal oil, a substitute for whale oil for lighting, distilled from coal.
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 ...