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Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light / Jane Brox.
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.Description: 360 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780285638990 :
- 0285638998 :
- TH7900 .B68 2010
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Summary: Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | TH 7900 .B68 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5030655 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-345) and index.
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.
Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
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