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The Tilley lamp is: a kerosene pressure lamp.
Historyâ»
In 1813, John Tilley invented the "hydro-pneumatic blowpipe." In 1818, "William Henry Tilley," gas fitters, was manufacturing gas lamps in Stoke Newington, and, in the 1830s, in Shoreditch.
In 1846, Abraham Pineo Gesner invented coal oil, a substitute for whale oil for lighting, distilled from coal. Kerosene, made from petroleum, later became a popular lighting fuel. In 1853, most versions of the kerosene lamp were invented by Polish inventor and pharmacist Ignacy Ćukasiewicz, in Lviv. It was a significant improvement over lamps designed to burn vegetable. Or sperm oil.
On 23 September 1885, Carl Auer von Welsbach received a patent on the gas flame heated incandescent mantle light.
In 1914, the Coleman Lantern, a similar pressure lamp was introduced by the US Coleman Company.
In 1915, during World War I, the Tilley company moved to Brent Street in Hendon, and began developing kerosene pressure lamp.
In 1919, Tilley High-Pressure Gas Company started using kerosene as a fuel for lamps.
In the 1920s, Tilley company got a contract to supply lamps to railways. And made domestic lamps.
During World War II, Armed Forces purchased quantities of lamps, thus many sailors, soldiers and "airmen used a Tilley Lamp."
After World War II, demand for Tilley Lamps drove expansion to a second factory, in Cricklewood, then a third, merged, single factory in Colindale.
The company moved to Northern Ireland in the early 1960s, finally settling in Belfast. It moved back to England in 2000.
Competing lampsâ»
See alsoâ»
Further readingâ»
- Jim Dick, A History of Tilley Lamps ISBN 0-646-39330-8
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