Brilliant : the evolution of artificial light

Brox, Jane 1956- (Author).

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

Record details

ISBN: 0547055277
ISBN: 9780547055275
Physical Description: 360 p. ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-345) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.