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Brox, Jane, 1956-
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Lighting -- History.
Electric lighting.
Electric lighting -- History.
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Brox, Jane, 1956-
Lighting -- History.
Electric lighting.
Electric lighting -- History.
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Brilliant
: the evolution of artificial light / Jane Brox.
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Brox, Jane, 1956-
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Call #:
621.3209 B885b
Subjects
Lighting -- History.
Electric lighting.
Electric lighting -- History.
ISBN:
9780547055275
0547055277
Alternate title:
Brilliant
Description:
360 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : lascaux revisited.
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