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The Tilley lamp is a kerosene pressure lamp.
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The Tilley lamp is a kerosene pressure lamp.
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. 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 Łukasiewicz, in Lviv. [4] [5] [6] [7] 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. [8]
In 1914, the Coleman Lantern, a similar pressure lamp was introduced by the US Coleman Company. [9] [10] [11]
In 1915, during World War I, the Tilley company moved to Brent Street in Hendon, and began developing a kerosene pressure lamp. [12]
In 1919, Tilley High-Pressure Gas Company started using kerosene as a fuel for lamps. [13]
In the 1920s, Tilley company got a contract to supply lamps to railways, and made domestic lamps. [12]
During World War II, Armed Forces purchased quantities of lamps, thus many sailors, soldiers and airmen used a Tilley Lamp. [12]
After World War II, demand for Tilley Lamps drove expansion to a second factory, in Cricklewood, then a third, merged, single factory in Colindale. [12]
The company moved to Northern Ireland in the early 1960s, finally settling in Belfast.[ citation needed ] It moved back to England in 2000.[ citation needed ]
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