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2) Light bulb
Author
Publisher
Kane Press, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction "biography" of the light bulb from the electric precursors like the arc lamp to Thomas Edison's invention and beyond to current innovations in light bulb technology"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living symbol of the Art Nouveau movement with her hypnotic dances...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"American lucifers tracks how struggles to produce light transformed American history, beginning with the rise of the American whale fishery in the 1750s and culminating in the emergence, around the Civil War, of the petroleum industry and its primary product, kerosene. Between this shift from oil harvested from whales to oil extracted from rocks, American light was substantially derived from a substance called camphene, a highly explosive liquid...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked the arrival of modernity. The lightbulb became a catalyst for the nation's...
Author
Publisher
Devir Americas
Pub. Date
[2019?]
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1889. The Exposition Universelle was the perfect opportunity to amaze the world with the power of electricity. While Paris had already been known as the "city of lights" since the beginning of the 1800s thanks to its network of gas streetlights, the implementation of electric public lighting left the entire globe awestruck. In the role of one of the most important personalities of the city, you are keen on ensuring that your buildings are...
Author
Publisher
Race Point Publishing, a member of Quarto Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his contributions to humanity (we are told) obscured by a number of nineteenth-century inventors and industrialists who took credit for his work or stole his patents outright. In recent years, the historical record has been "corrected" and Tesla has...
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