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Title: Artificial Light
Author: M. Luckiesh, 1920
File: Free Book, PDF 439 KB, 152 pages

Review
A book about artificial light and its influence upon civilization. Tracing the history and technology of light from its primitive origins to the latest technology and uses of light in 1920. The Author explains how artificial light has become "intricately interwoven with human activity and that it has been a powerful influence upon the progress of civilization".

Written by M. Luckiesh, the director of applied science, NELA Research Laboratory, National Lamp Works of General Electric Company, an expert in the field of artificial light at the time. Language geared to the general reader and not the scientific community.

Table of Contents

• Light and Progress
• The Art of Making Fire
• Primitive Light Sources
• The Ceremonial use of Light
• Oil Lamps of the Nineteenth Century
• Early Gas Lighting
• The Science of Light Production
• Modern Gas Lighting
• The Electric Arcs
• The Electric Incandescent Filament Lamps
• The Light of the Future
• Lighting the Streets
• Lighthouses
• Artificial Light in Warfare
• Signaling
• The Cost of Light
• Light and Safety
• The Cost of Living
• Artificial Light and Chemistry
• Light and Health
• Modifying Artificial Light
• Spectacular Lighting
• The Expressiveness of Light
• Lighting the Home
• Lighting - A Fine Art
• Reading References
• Index