OIL 150 TRIBUTE ~ Burning Yellow Dog Derrick Lantern Coolspring fall show 2009 Pennsylvania

Yellow Dog was a nick name for these Derrick Lamps / Lanterns. The tale goes as they burned at night they appeared to look like glowing dog eyes from a distance. Another tale claims they casts a dog-like shadow on the ground. They were used to light areas around oil derricks. The first patent was in 1870 to Jonathan Dillen, a native of Petroleum Centre in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Even after MANY years of use past 1879 when Thomas Edison's first invented the light bulb, they started to fade away into history. 2009 marks 150 years of oil history since the first oil well was dug in 1859 in Titusville Pennsylvania.

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