Gas lamps along Allegheny River Boulevard in Oakmont may be going out as a borough committee seeks state funding for replacements. Oakmont Boulevard Project members have been working on converting the ...

BOSTON (CBS) - They tend to catch your eye when you stroll or drive through any one of several historic Boston neighborhoods. Those old gas-burning streetlamps certainly ooze colonial charm. But ...

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Think how difficult it was before 1800, when you had to have light to work at night and there were only candles or several kinds of oil lamps. By the 1850s, it was easier. There were kerosene lamps, ...

Princess Anne’s husband is a trustee at the St James’s Conservation Trust, which is currently challenging King Charles's plan for several royal residencies. The King wants to replace historic gas ...

The old light fixtures we see so often in Brooklyn townhouses that we think are original to the building are quite often early electric lights or mid 20th century chandeliers. “It is rare to find ...

In 1957, the last gas street light was extinguished in Baltimore and replaced by mercury vapor lamps. Putting out the lights, shown above, had started in the early 1950s. Baltimore was the first city ...

In the lighting industry the newest fad is the old gas lamp. The fad got going last year when Whitt Stephens, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. president and board chairman, offered to install gas lamps free ...

British Gas still has five employees who work as lamplighters, tending to the more than 1,000 centuries-old gas lamps that still line some of... Carrying The Torch For London's Last Gas Lamps In the ...