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Author : Matthew Luckiesh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:747733446
Author : Luckiesh Matthew
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318831261
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Author : Matthew Luckiesh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1440093717
Excerpt from Artificial Light: Its Influence Upon Civilization In the following pages I have endeavored to discuss artificial light for the general reader, in a manner as devoid as possible of intricate details. The early chapters deal particularly with primitive artificial light and their contents are generally historical. The science of light-production may be considered to have been born in the latter part of the eighteenth century and beginning with that period a few chapters treat of the development of artificial light up to the present time. Until the middle of the nineteenth century mere light was available, but as the century progressed, the light-sources through the application of science be came more powerful and efficient. Gradually mere light grew to more light and in the dawn of the twen tieth century adequate light became available. In a single century, after the development of artificial light began in earnest, the efficiency of light-production in creased fifty-fold and the cost diminished correspond ingly. The next group of chapters deals with various economic influences of artificial light and with some of the byways in which artificial light is serving man kind. On passing through the spectacular aspects of lighting we finally emerge into the esthetics of light and lighting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : M. Luckiesh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1409980189
Matthew Luckiesh DSc, DE, (1883-1967) was an American physicist and, as the Director of General Electric's Lighting Research Laboratory at its Nela Park National Lamps Works facility in East Cleveland, Ohio, he pursued research on light and vision. In his day, he was known as the Father of the Science of Seeing. Luckiesh developed several theories on color and its physiological effect on people. He was also interested in determining the conditions under which optimal visibility was achieved, and in examining the relationship between light and seeing, in order to design better types of lamps. During World War I he studied camouflage, and later invented artificial sunlight and germicidal lamps. He produced eleven U. S. patents, 28 books and about 860 scientific and technical articles, published between 1911 and 1960. His works include: Color and its Applications (1915), Artificial Light: Its Influence Upon Civilization (1920), Visual Illusions (1922), The Book of the Sky (1922), Foundations of the Universe (1925), The Science of Seeing (with Frank K. Moss) (1937), Color and Colors (1938) and Light, Vision and Seeing (1944).
Author : Matthew 1883 Luckiesh
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360402721
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Author : Matthew Luckiesh
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129490860X
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Author : M. Luckiesh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1435351312
Author : Matthew Luckiesh
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1920-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465512925
Author : M. Luckiesh
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530759072
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Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Lighting
ISBN : 028564081X
Tracing the fascinating history of human light, from stone lamps to the lightbulb, the story of light is also the story of evolving humanity. The class, social and environmental implications of providing light has shaped historical eras: crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours and drove the crazed hunting of whales for their oil towards environmental disaster. Gaslight helped to create leisure hours in the evening and allowed the emergence of vibrant street life in cities while incandescent light changed the ways we live and sleep. Jane Brox asks the reader to consider the cost of the current grid system for providing light.
Author : Catherine Rich,Travis Longcore
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597265966
While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding success of birds to behavioral and physiological changes in salamanders, many organisms are seriously affected by human alterations in natural patterns of light and dark. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting is the first book to consider the environmental effects of the intentional illumination of the night. It brings together leading scientists from around the world to review the state of knowledge on the subject and to describe specific effects that have been observed across a full range of taxonomic groups, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and plants. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting provides a scientific basis to begin addressing the challenge of conserving the nighttime environment. It cogently demonstrates the vital importance of this until-now neglected topic and is an essential new work for conservation planners, researchers, and anyone concerned with human impacts on the natural world.
Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781101605479
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author : Shawkat Alam,Sumudu Atapattu,Carmen G. Gonzalez,Jona Razzaque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107055698
Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.
Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : Field Day Publications
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arts
ISBN : 9780946755455
Field Day Review, the best Irish Studies essays and international contexts
Author : Woody Register
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195167325
A portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur who designed and built Luna Park - which in 1903 transformed Coney Island into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation - and created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, filling it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. The author also explores the development of the idea of adult amusements in America during Thompson's day, and ours.