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Title: Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization

Author: Matthew Luckiesh

Release date: January 29, 2006 [eBook #17625]

Language: English

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PREFACE.

CHAPTER

I. Light and Progress

II. The Art of Making Fire

III. Primitive Light-Sources

IV. The Ceremonial Use of Light

V. Oil-Lamps of the Nineteenth Century

VI. Early Gas-Lighting

VII. The Science of Light-Production

VIII. Modern Gas-Lighting

IX. The Electric Arcs

X. The Electric Incandescent Filament Lamps

XI. The Light of the Future

XII. Lighting the Streets

XIII. Lighthouses

XIV. Artificial Light in Warfare

XV. Signaling

XVI. The Cost of Light

XVII. Light and Safety

XVIII. The Cost of Living

XIX. Artificial Light and Chemistry

XX. Light and Health

XXI. Modifying Artificial Light

XXII. Spectacular Lighting

XXIII. The Expressiveness of Light

XXIV. Lighting the Home

XXV. Lighting—A Fine Art?

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