Although Nebraska’s earliest cabins were lit only by candles, coal oil lanterns followed quickly, and less than a decade ...

Soma Bags makes backpacks equipped with solar panels that power a light, enabling children in rural Tanzania to read even when the sun goes down.

and so his family was forced to burn expensive oil for him to learn after dark. (CNN) — When Innocent James completed his chores after school, he would light a kerosene lamp and lay down to read ...

Consequently, many families rely on kerosene lamps to provide light after ... James says the solar backpacks are more affordable than using an oil lamp. A solar bag costs between 12,000 and ...

On a recent holiday in Sweden it's no surprise that I came across a fair few IKEA staples, however there was one lamp, the ...

The refinery produced several oil-based products, the most well-known being Astral Oil, a kerosene lamp oil that was purer than any other on the market. Astral Oil was the most popular lamp oil in the ...

One doesn’t have to watch too many movies set in the Victorian/Edwardian period to think that most streets circa 1880-1900 were much like this one, dark and scary in a ...

Alabama is preparing for its 14th annual Severe Weather Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday. The holiday spans the weekend of Feb.

Perhaps most well-known story is the US government’s dismantling of Standard Oil’s market dominance ... that replaced Rockefeller’s kerosene lamps in every home. We could go on and on.

The Nicholson Fire Company was formed on Feb. 29, 1904. To acknowledge this monumental event, for the month of February the Sesquicentennial Committee, in conjunction with the fire company, will ...

Because he had heard about Samuel Kerr refining it into kerosene in Pittsburgh and the ... and so Rockefeller had a new way to make money. It wasn't lamp oil anymore, now it was petroleum.