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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tilley Lamp derives from John Tilley''s invention of the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe in 1813. W.H.Tilley were manufacturing pressure lamps at their works in Stoke Newington in 1818, and Shoreditch in the 1830s. The company moved to Brent Street in Hendon in 1915 during World War I, and started work with paraffin (kerosene) as a fuel for the lamps. During World War II the Tilley Lamp was widely used in the British armed forces, and became so popular that Tilley became…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tilley Lamp derives from John Tilley''s invention of the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe in 1813. W.H.Tilley were manufacturing pressure lamps at their works in Stoke Newington in 1818, and Shoreditch in the 1830s. The company moved to Brent Street in Hendon in 1915 during World War I, and started work with paraffin (kerosene) as a fuel for the lamps. During World War II the Tilley Lamp was widely used in the British armed forces, and became so popular that Tilley became used as a generic name for Kerosene lamp in many parts of the world, in much the same way as Hoover is for vacuum cleaners.