kerosene lamp

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By the time his competitors got their oil out of the ground, Rockefeller owned every inch of infrastructure between the wellhead and the kerosene lamp.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

“People typically are close to the kerosene lamp as well, causing them to really inhale a lot of the particles.”

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2023

Mr. Nyunt Khin lit a kerosene lamp, illuminating the pottery dust suspended in the air.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019

Her husband, Jimmie Long, Jr., fishes for the wick to light a kerosene lamp as the couple and their 13-year-old son prepare to spend a final night without electricity.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2019

At night, seated at a crude table, with a kerosene lamp spluttering at my elbow, I would fill out insurance applications, and a sharecropper family, fresh from laboring in the fields, would stand and gape.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright