August 24, 2015 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Most of us are, slowly but surely, getting rid of old incandescent bulbs and replacing them with LEDs and CFLs, ...

Old oil lamps are igniting renewed interest from collectors seeking decorative accessories that can still, if needed, provide light. The lamps are also collected as examples of early American glass.

Many 18th-century lamps used oil to produce light. If whale oil was not available, the lamps could use olive oil. The oil was kept in a reservoir, usually metal, that had three or four burners with ...

An illustration of Wilkes-Barre policeman William T. Rhoads climbing a street lamp post at Public Square and North Main Street on Jan. 4, 1883, published in the Sunday News newspaper on Jan. 7, 1883.