Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anita Eka Permatawaty via Shutterstock Antique oil lamp identification can be a bit tricky, considering there are many ...

I feel nostalgic as I recall the time I spent studying under oil lamps and lanterns in the 1960s and 70s and how my generation struggled to complete school education in the dim lights of kerosene ...

An Indian social enterprise start-up is helping people living in urban slums to use clean energy by changing their kerosene lamps for solar lanterns and wood fires for more efficient cooking stoves ...

Everyone needs light. After the sun goes down, you need some kind of artificial illumination to read, to clean up the house, to work. And if you’re off the grid in a developing country, then that ...

Kerosene lamps provide ambience from an earlier century. They serve as a light source safer and more powerful than an open candlestick. In the past, they were used on trains and horse-drawn carriages.

Visitors to a collection of kerosene lamps owned by Tran Thanh Tung in Hanoi’s Hao Nam street are amazed by the oil lamps of many types and sizes on display in his living room. Visitors to a ...

As the British firmly established their dominance in erstwhile Travancore by 1840s, they also began to introduce their products in erstwhile Travancore. Kerosene became popular in the west in the ...