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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 This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline.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 or propane and use one or two mantles to produce an intense white light.
Coleman's made their first lantern, Model L or Arc lantern, sometimes referred to as Model 316 (the globe part number), from 1914 to 1925 (Strong, cited in Becker). It is based on their Model 250 hollow wire lamp.
- Sanitary towels... A material called Cellucotton had already been invented before war broke out, by what was then a small US firm - Kimberly-Clark. The company's head of research, Ernst Mahler, and its vice-president, James, C Kimberly, had toured pulp and paper plants in Germany, Austria and Scandinavia in 1914 and spotted a material five times more absorbent than cotton and - when mass-produced - half as expensive.
- and paper hankies. Marketing sanitary pads was not easy, however, partly because women were loath to buy the product from male shop assistants. The company urged shops to allow customers to buy it simply by leaving money in a box.
- Sun lamp. In the winter of 1918, it's estimated that half of all children in Berlin were suffering from rickets- a condition whereby bones become soft and deformed.
- Daylight saving time. The idea of putting the clocks forward in spring and back in autumn was not new when WW1 broke out. Benjamin Franklin had suggested it in a letter to The Journal of Paris in 1784.
17,500 BC oldest documented lamp, utilizing animal fat as fuel; c. 4500 BC oil lamps; c. 3000 BC candles are invented. 18th century. 1780 Ami Argand invents the central draught fixed oil lamp. 1784 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp.
Apr 3, 2009 · This article focuses on the history of the oil lamp, describing multiple examples. It originally appeared in the June 1942 issue of American Collector magazine, a publication which ran from 1933-1948 and served antique collectors and dealers.
Feb 23, 2015 · These cost-effective lamps, although made from the remnants of a terrible explosion, were advertised as a celebration of victory in WWI and often called "A lamp that can never be made again."
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One of the first battery-powered lamps was the CEAG hand lamp made in England in 1912. In the United States battery-powered cap lamps manufactured by Edison, Hirsch, Concordia, Witherbee, and Koehler were all approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines from 1915 through 1917.
