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Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light / Jane Brox.

By: Brox, Jane, 1956-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-345) and index.Description: 360 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780547055275 :; 0547055277.Subject(s): Lighting -- HistoryDDC classification: 621.3209
Contents:
The Earth at night as seen from space -- Lascaux : the first lamp -- Time of dark streets -- Lanterns at sea -- Gaslight -- Towards a more perfect flame -- Life electric -- Incandescence -- Overwhelming brilliance : the White City -- Niagara : long distance light -- New century, last flame -- Gleaming things -- Alone in the dark -- Rural electrification -- Cold light -- Wartime : the return of old night -- Lascaux discovered -- Blackout, 1965 -- Imagining the next grid -- At the mercy of light -- More is less -- The once and future light -- Lascaux revisited.
Summary: Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-345) and index.

The Earth at night as seen from space -- Lascaux : the first lamp -- Time of dark streets -- Lanterns at sea -- Gaslight -- Towards a more perfect flame -- Life electric -- Incandescence -- Overwhelming brilliance : the White City -- Niagara : long distance light -- New century, last flame -- Gleaming things -- Alone in the dark -- Rural electrification -- Cold light -- Wartime : the return of old night -- Lascaux discovered -- Blackout, 1965 -- Imagining the next grid -- At the mercy of light -- More is less -- The once and future light -- Lascaux revisited.

Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.

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