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TheTilley lamp is akerosenepressure lamp.
In 1813, John Tilley invented the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe.[3] In 1818, William Henry Tilley, gas fitters, was manufacturing gas lamps inStoke Newington, and, in the 1830s, inShoreditch.[citation needed]
In 1846,Abraham Pineo Gesner inventedcoal oil, a substitute forwhale 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 byPolish inventor and pharmacistIgnacy Łukasiewicz, inLviv.[4][5][6][7] It was a significant improvement over lamps designed to burn vegetable orsperm oil.
On 23 September 1885,Carl Auer von Welsbach received a patent on the gas flame heatedincandescent mantle light.[8]
In 1914, theColeman Lantern, a similarpressure lamp was introduced by the USColeman Company.[9][10][11]
In 1915, duringWorld War I, the Tilley company moved to Brent Street inHendon, 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]
DuringWorld War II, Armed Forces purchased quantities of lamps, thus many sailors, soldiers and airmen used a Tilley Lamp.[12]
AfterWorld War II, demand for Tilley Lamps drove expansion to a second factory, inCricklewood, then a third, merged, single factory inColindale.[12]
The company moved to Northern Ireland in the early 1960s, finally settling inBelfast.[citation needed] It moved back to England in 2000.[14]
