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Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization

by Matthew Luckiesh

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Acknowledgments
  3. 3I — Light and Progress
  4. 4II — The Art of Making Fire
  5. 5III — Primitive Light-Sources
  6. 6IV — The Ceremonial Use of Light
  7. 7V — Oil-Lamps of the Nineteenth Century
  8. 8VI — Early Gas-Lighting
  9. 9VII — The Science of Light-Production
  10. 10VIII — Modern Gas-Lighting
  11. 11IX — The Electric Arcs
  12. 12X — The Electric Incandescent Filament Lamps
  13. 13XI — The Light of the Future
  14. 14XII — Lighting the Streets
  15. 15XIII — Lighthouses
  16. 16XIV — Artificial Light in Warfare
  17. 17XV — Signaling
  18. 18XVI — The Cost of Light
  19. 19XVII — Light and Safety
  20. 20XVIII — The Cost of Living
  21. 21XIX — Artificial Light and Chemistry
  22. 22XX — Light and Health
  23. 23XXI — Modifying Artificial Light
  24. 24XXII — Spectacular Lighting
  25. 25XXIII — The Expressiveness of Light
  26. 26XXIV — Lighting the Home
  27. 27XXV — Lighting — A Fine Art?
  28. 28Reading References

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