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Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light /

Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brox, Jane, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Subjects:
Lighting > History.
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Table of 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.