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1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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RICH: Reprints in Canadian History
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RICH: Reprints in Canadian History.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-338) and index. |
| Summary |
"The nineteenth century opened in the flickering of tallow candles and closed in the glare of Edison's electric lamp. Between those two events inventors and manufacturers developed a wonderful assortment of progressively more efficient lighting devices, burning a variety of fuels. Lois Russell records with scientific attention to detail - backed up by more than two hundred illustrations - how these lamps were made and used. His text is interspersed with accounts of his own experiments with the fuels and mechanisms of earlier generations." "Russell drew on his own large collection of lighting devices and on the collections of museums and other individuals for his study, and documented his research with Canadian and United States patent papers, trade catalogues, newspapers, magazines, memoirs, and books. This is the first detailed story of the lighting revolution in North America. While told in the setting of the Canadian home, the developing technology of lighting was common to both sides of the border. A Heritage of Light is of equal importance to collectors and historians in the United States and Canada. This reprinted edition of Russell's classic 1968 study has a new foreword by Janet Holmes."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 From Splint to Candle""; ""2 Lighting the Lamp""; ""3 Grease in the Pan""; ""4 When Whale Oil Was King""; ""5 Those Deadly Burning Fluids""; ""6 Lard Becomes Respectable""; ""7 The Coming of Kerosene""; ""8 Those New-Fangled Lamps""; ""9 Everybody Used Kerosene""; ""10 Swan Song of the Kerosene Lamp""; ""11 Light the Gas""; ""12 Thank You, Mr. Edison""; ""Epilogue""; ""Glossary""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lamps -- Canada -- History.
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Lamps. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
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Lighting -- Canada -- History.
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Lighting. |
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Canada -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Russell, Loris S. (Loris Shano), 1904-1998. Heritage of light. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2003 9780802037657 (DLC) 2003276408 (OCoLC)51040861 |
| ISBN |
9781442670365 (electronic book) |
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1442670363 (electronic book) |
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1282023438 |
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9781282023437 |
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0802037658 |
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9780802037657 |
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