'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 an open flame 'coal oil lamp.' Several years later that boy, grown to manhood, found a lamp that erased the darkness with a soft white light and it was only natural that he named the lamp 'Aladdin.' An appropriate name, indeed, for this revolutionary boon to rural America seemed nothing short of magical in the intensity of its light. more... See more text