1) Lighting brand 
Petromax is a brand name for a type of pressurised paraffin lamp (US:kerosene lamp) that uses a mantle. They are as synonymous with the paraffin lamp on the Continent as Tilley lamps are in Britain and Coleman lamps are in the United States. ==History== Max Graetz (1851–1937) was President of the firm Ehrich & Graetz in Berlin, which developed t...