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History of Electric Light

History of Electric Light

by Henry Schroeder

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Author
Schroeder, Henry, 1879-1952
Title
History of electric light
Original Publication
United States: The Smithsonian Institution,1923.
Credits
Charlene Taylor, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
Q: Science
Subject
Electric lighting -- History
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68326
Release Date
June 16, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. 4.FOREWORD
  5. 5.CHRONOLOGY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
  6. 6.HISTORY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT — EARLY RECORDS OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
  7. 7.MACHINES GENERATING ELECTRICITY BY FRICTION
  8. 8.THE LEYDEN JAR
  9. 9.ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY CHEMICAL MEANS
  10. 10.IMPROVEMENT OF VOLTA’S BATTERY
  11. 11.DAVY’S DISCOVERIES
  12. 12.RESEARCHES OF OERSTED, AMPÈRE, SCHWEIGGER AND STURGEON
  13. 13.OHM’S LAW
  14. 14.INVENTION OF THE DYNAMO
  15. 15.DANIELL’S BATTERY
  16. 16.GROVE’S BATTERY
  17. 17.GROVE’S DEMONSTRATION OF INCANDESCENT LIGHTING
  18. 18.GRENET BATTERY
  19. 19.DE MOLEYNS’ INCANDESCENT LAMP
  20. 20.EARLY DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ARC LAMP
  21. 21.JOULE’S LAW
  22. 22.STARR’S INCANDESCENT LAMP
  23. 23.OTHER EARLY INCANDESCENT LAMPS
  24. 24.FURTHER ARC LAMP DEVELOPMENTS
  25. 25.DEVELOPMENT OF THE DYNAMO, 1840–1860
  26. 26.THE FIRST COMMERCIAL INSTALLATION OF AN ELECTRIC LIGHT
  27. 27.FURTHER DYNAMO DEVELOPMENTS
  28. 28.RUSSIAN INCANDESCENT LAMP INVENTORS
  29. 29.THE JABLOCHKOFF “CANDLE”
  30. 30.COMMERCIAL INTRODUCTION OF THE DIFFERENTIALLY CONTROLLED ARC LAMP
  31. 31.ARC LIGHTING IN THE UNITED STATES
  32. 32.OTHER AMERICAN ARC LIGHT SYSTEMS
  33. 33.“SUB-DIVIDING THE ELECTRIC LIGHT”
  34. 34.EDISON’S INVENTION OF A PRACTICAL INCANDESCENT LAMP
  35. 35.EDISON’S THREE-WIRE SYSTEM
  36. 36.DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALTERNATING CURRENT CONSTANT POTENTIAL SYSTEM
  37. 37.INCANDESCENT LAMP DEVELOPMENTS, 1884–1894
  38. 38.THE EDISON “MUNICIPAL” STREET LIGHTING SYSTEM
  39. 39.THE SHUNT BOX SYSTEM FOR SERIES INCANDESCENT LAMPS
  40. 40.THE ENCLOSED ARC LAMP
  41. 41.THE FLAME ARC LAMP
  42. 42.THE CONSTANT CURRENT TRANSFORMER FOR SERIES CIRCUITS
  43. 43.ENCLOSED SERIES ALTERNATING CURRENT ARC LAMPS
  44. 44.SERIES INCANDESCENT LAMPS ON CONSTANT CURRENT TRANSFORMERS
  45. 45.THE NERNST LAMP
  46. 46.THE COOPER-HEWITT LAMP
  47. 47.THE LUMINOUS OR MAGNETITE ARC LAMP
  48. 48.MERCURY ARC RECTIFIER FOR MAGNETITE ARC LAMPS
  49. 49.INCANDESCENT LAMP DEVELOPMENTS, 1894–1904
  50. 50.THE MOORE TUBE LIGHT
  51. 51.THE OSMIUM LAMP
  52. 52.THE GEM LAMP
  53. 53.THE TANTALUM LAMP
  54. 54.INVENTION OF THE TUNGSTEN LAMP
  55. 55.DRAWN TUNGSTEN WIRE
  56. 56.THE QUARTZ MERCURY VAPOR ARC LAMP
  57. 57.THE GAS-FILLED TUNGSTEN LAMP
  58. 58.TYPES AND SIZES OF TUNGSTEN LAMPS NOW MADE
  59. 59.STANDARD VOLTAGES
  60. 60.COST OF INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LIGHT
  61. 61.STATISTICS REGARDING THE PRESENT DEMAND FOR LAMPS
  62. 62.SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  63. 63.Transcriber’s Notes

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