There's no shortage of portable lighting options out there for campers or people living in developing countries, but they all have their own pros and cons. The Lumir K lamp is aiming to be the right ...

If old lamps turn you on, here`s some important news for you. Catherine M.V. and Carl Thuro`s stunning oil lamp collection-probably the world`s largest and most varied-will be auctioned in three ...

As the British firmly established their dominance in erstwhile Travancore by 1840s, they also began to introduce their products in erstwhile Travancore. Kerosene became popular in the west in the ...

Hoping you can help me identify who made the attached lamp. My great-grandfather, Daniel Ripley, was a glassmaker in Pittsburgh. I bought this oil lamp on eBay, where it was listed as a Ripley oil ...

At a time when the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has blamed contamination of kerosene for the recent stove and lantern blasts and cautioned people against buying such product, one more lamp explosion ...

This passing ice storm reminds me how necessary a hurricane or oil lamp is for lighting during power outages. After a candle-related fire following the Christmas ice storm of 2000, we bought an ...

As a young child, Virginia McLaurin remembers seeing and admiring this oil lamp in her grandparents’ home in Cheraw, South Carolina. Her grandparents lived in a log house which they built themselves ...

Kerosene lamps that delighted Americans in the last half of the 19th century provided colorful decor as well as light. The lamps were manufactured in England, France, Canada and the United States, ...

I feel nostalgic as I recall the time I spent studying under oil lamps and lanterns in the 1960s and 70s and how my generation struggled to complete school education in the dim lights of kerosene ...