Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light / Jane Brox.
Brox, Jane, 1956-
2010
TH7900 .B68 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light / Jane Brox.
Author
Brox, Jane, 1956-
ISBN
9780547055275
0547055277
Publication Details
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Language
English
Description
360 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
TH7900 .B68 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
621.3209
Summary
Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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