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Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light / Jane Brox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brox, Jane, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lighting--History.
- Lighting.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 360 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
- Summary:
- Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780547055275 :
- 0547055277
- OCLC:
- 435917984
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