Artificial Light
by Matthew Luckiesh
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About this eBook
- Author
- Luckiesh, Matthew, 1883-1967
- Title
- Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
- Credits
- Produced by K.D. Thornton, Karina Aleksandrova and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TP: Technology: Chemical technology
- Subject
- Electric lighting
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 17625
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17625
- Release Date
- January 29, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Century Books of Useful Science — Artificial Light — ITS INFLUENCE UPON CIVILIZATION — BY
- 2.M. LUCKIESH — DIRECTOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE. NELA RESEARCH LABORATORY, NATIONAL LAMP WORKS OF GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Author of "Color and Its Applications," "Light and Shade and Their Applications," "The Lighting Art," "The Language of Color," etc. — ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS — NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1920
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
- 7.LIGHT AND PROGRESS
- 8.THE ART OF MAKING FIRE
- 9.PRIMITIVE LIGHT-SOURCES
- 10.THE CEREMONIAL USE OF LIGHT
- 11.OIL-LAMPS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 12.EARLY GAS-LIGHTING
- 13.THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT-PRODUCTION
- 14.MODERN GAS-LIGHTING
- 15.THE ELECTRIC ARCS
- 16.THE ELECTRIC INCANDESCENT FILAMENT LAMPS
- 17.THE LIGHT OF THE FUTURE
- 18.LIGHTING THE STREETS
- 19.LIGHTHOUSES
- 20.ARTIFICIAL LIGHT IN WARFARE
- 21.SIGNALING
- 22.THE COST OF LIGHT
- 23.LIGHT AND SAFETY
- 24.THE COST OF LIVING
- 25.ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND CHEMISTRY
- 26.LIGHT AND HEALTH
- 27.MODIFYING ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
- 28.SPECTACULAR LIGHTING
- 29.THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF LIGHT
- 30.LIGHTING THE HOME
- 31.LIGHTING—A FINE ART?
- 32.READING REFERENCES
- 33.INDEX
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