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Newest Aladdin Knight meets J. W. “Bill” Courter

As many of you know, we have been working hard on Imperial Lighting Co. (ILC) Website for several months. We’ve been adding products, categories, images, content and a lot of behind-the-scenes integration to make our user experiences great. Thankfully, we have a tremendously talented webmaster to handle all the heavy duty technical “stuff”. Meet Kevin…

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Aladdin Lamps are “Wireless”

Worlds Finest Non-Electric Lamp Excerpts from 1930s advertising brochures—The Aladdin Mantle Lamp is one of the greatest and most practical inventions of the century. It is an outstanding achievement of science in connection with artificial lighting. It has gone a long, long way toward solving the lighting problem for rural homes, with its abundance of…

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Identifying Aladdin Lamp Burners

The “heart” of the Aladdin is the lamp burner. and its improvements that primarily define the various models. Changes sometimes happened at a fast pace and variations in construction in burners and lamp bowls occurred throughout the models. The differences may be subtle such as the change between Model 3 to 4 or, Model 7…

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A Brief History of Aladdin Lamps

Victor S. Johnson, 1882-1943, photographed at work in 1924. Johnson named the Aladdin lamp and founded the company that made it world-famous. “Nearly a century ago, a very small boy on a Nebraska farm read and re-read the Arabian Nights story of Aladdin in a room of darkness but for the flickering yellow light of…

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