When size matters

[Tugaloo]

Some people have no idea how things were back as little as 60 years ago. the industrial /Victorian era moved things along .

I get what you're saying. Today's world has young people who can text or game with 2 fingers on their cell phone; OTOH, they are clueless how to fish or tie a fishing knot.
Ask them where does food come from and they'll answer from the grocery store, where else?

[Armyjimbo]

Some people have no idea how things were back as little as 60 years ago. the industrial /Victorian era moved things along .

[Tugaloo]

That was interesting as he linked the history of it all together.

Once oil lamps used whale oil as fuel which left people against whale hunting in the dark. It also meant no corsets for women which were made from baleen.
Many years ago candles were made from animal fat or tallow or whale fat. Again some people were left in the dark unlike us knuckle draggers type who made candles and ate the animal's meat.

It appears many of today's people would have been out of the picture back then..

ROFL

[Armyjimbo]

I tripped onto the video below and from there it was down a rabbit hole

[Tugaloo]

Those are really neat!

Your link mentioned how many kinds of fuel that can be used. Whereas most believe commercially available lamp oil. The Romans used terracotta lamps as fuel they used olive oil or other kinds of oil extracted from vegetables.

https://ancient-rome.info/ancient-roman-oil-lamps/

We have a few antique cut glass type oil lamps.

https://cdn0.rubylane.com/_pod/item/503073/6154/Pair-Antique-Cut-Glass-Oil-Lamps-full-6-2048-00000000-f.jpg

None of ours have a lamp shade just a base, metal burner, a glass chimney and a wick. As they are old, no safety devices are present.


Your link was really informative, thanks!!!

[Armyjimbo]

Note to self check actual dimensions