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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.
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 This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline.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.
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Nov 6, 2014 · Table lamps made by renowned designers usually have a date stamp, a product number or the manufacturer's name listed on them somewhere. By determining the year a table lamp was manufactured, you can learn a lot of information that can help you discover its value or find any replacement parts needed.
- 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.
Jul 28, 2021 · When tungsten filaments were introduced, about 50 million lamp sockets existed in the USA. In 1914, 88.5 million lamps were used (only 15% with carbon filaments), and by 1945, annual sales of lamps were 795 million (more than 5 lamps per person per year).
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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 a kerosene pressure lamp. In 1919, Tilley High-Pressure Gas Company started using kerosene as a fuel for lamps.
