Hurricane Paraffin Lantern
This Kerosene lantern, aka Hurricane Paraffin Lantern is olive green and 24cm.
A simple and reliable technology with glass sides and opening on the top, ideal for your camping trips.
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The kerosene lantern, also popularly referred to as a "hurricane lantern" was
commonly used from the late 1800s through the middle of the
20th century. A kerosene lantern is a rugged version of a kerosene lamp and is designed for portability.
The metal chimney and side tubes, which securely
supports the glass globe to prevent breakage, typically contains a ducting system to stabilize and enhance
the draft of air reaching the flame resulting in
a stable, brighter, wind resistant flame. Lanterns with enhanced drafting are referred "hot
blast" or a "cold blast" tubular lanterns, depending
on their design, with the latter being more common. Large kerosene lanterns produce 12-14 candela of light
and approximately 1500 Btu of heat.
Common residential/agricultural applications for kerosene lamps were lighting unelectrified rural homes,
barns and the path for
night-time visits to outhouse.
Horse drawn carriages, railroad cars, ships, and early automobiles used kerosene lanterns for night time
illumination, but the brighter carbide lamp was preferred
for this use. The kerosene lantern was also heavily used as a method of signalling and navigational
marking in railroad, nautical, firefighting, and
public works applications. Lanterns used for signalling often had interchangeable globes of different
colours. For example, lanterns with red and green globes
were placed on the sides of ships to mark port and starboard, while lanterns with clear globes were used
to indicate the ship was at anchor. Lanterns
designed for marking purposes sometimes had extra large fuel tanks to permit 48 hours of continuous
burning to permit workers to leave it unattended over the
weekend.
