![LIGHTING 1850 - 1860 BEFORE 1850 1860-1880 Policeman's Lantern - tin with a glass bulls-eye lens which magnified the light. Often with a whale oil burner, later with a kerosene burner. Kerosene was used from 1854 and by 1864 it was a universal fluid ... LIGHTING 1850 - 1860 BEFORE 1850 1860-1880 Policeman's Lantern - tin with a glass bulls-eye lens which magnified the light. Often with a whale oil burner, later with a kerosene burner. Kerosene was used from 1854 and by 1864 it was a universal fluid ...](http://www.slcha.org/earlylighting/img_files/early_case_two/IMG_2238%201.jpg)
LIGHTING 1850 - 1860 BEFORE 1850 1860-1880 Policeman's Lantern - tin with a glass bulls-eye lens which magnified the light. Often with a whale oil burner, later with a kerosene burner. Kerosene was used from 1854 and by 1864 it was a universal fluid ...
![LIGHTING 1860 - 1880 1850-1860 1880-1910 THE BURNER is the heart of the oil lamp. From the 1840s on, hundreds of patents were filed with innovations to produce safer, cleaner, more efficient burners. English made kerosene burners. Bridgeport, Conn ... LIGHTING 1860 - 1880 1850-1860 1880-1910 THE BURNER is the heart of the oil lamp. From the 1840s on, hundreds of patents were filed with innovations to produce safer, cleaner, more efficient burners. English made kerosene burners. Bridgeport, Conn ...](http://www.slcha.org/earlylighting/img_files/early_case_three/110.jpg)