Sentences with phrase «coal oil lamps»
In this fabulous table from Our World in Data, you can see again how in the UK, the cost of lighting was pretty stable from the 1500s to the 1800s at an incredible 15,000 pounds per million lumen - hours; then it drops as coal oil lamps take over, and then falls to the floor with the development of the electric lightbulb.
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Because, a quarter millennium ago Watt gave its people steam power so that coal could be mined for warmth and wrangling iron, a century and a half ago Rockefeller standardized oil to give them lamp light and then mobility, and a century or so ago Edison gave them electricity.