An illustration of Wilkes-Barre policeman William T. Rhoads climbing a street lamp post at Public Square and North Main Street on Jan. 4, 1883, published in the Sunday News newspaper on Jan. 7, 1883.

Venezuela called the seizure a ‘blatant theft,’ adding that the action reveals oil as ‘the true reason’ for U.S. aggression against the country Author of the article: You can save this article by ...

The family of a former pit worker has been reunited with his retirement lamp, thanks to a passionate restorer who chose sentiment over profit. Kev Pattison bought the lamp dedicated to Les Bausor, who ...

Kev Pattison says many miners' lamps were thrown into landfill when the coal mines closed The family of a former pit worker has been reunited with his retirement lamp, thanks to a passionate restorer ...

There's a debate on when exactly light bulbs were invented. One of the earliest recordings of an electric "bulb" dates to 1801-02, when English chemist Sir Humphry Davy heated a platinum strip to ...

More than a billion people in India celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali on Monday as a state government secured the much-coveted record for lighting the largest number of oil lamps. Every autumn, ...

The wicks, preserved in unusual circumstances, are a remarkable discovery given the moist Mediterranean climate, which typically causes organic materials to decompose. A unique archaeological find in ...