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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I enjoyed this and it was very thorough if a bit preachy ( ) Interesting and comprehensive. It dragged in portions, loaded down with information, lumbering along. I learned a lot though. My favorite parts were the ancient times, the TVA electrification and the future of lighting. Some of it was familiar already- the disaster that lighting has caused among migratory birds, nesting turtles and astronomers- but the new information was fascinating.
I had worried that once Brox's story got to the invention of the electric light bulb, things would become rather more plain sailing, and the story a little boring. But no. When we consider the electric light bulb, romantic notions we might have had about candles or lamps will be tested. I had once, in a mood of wistful primitivism, entertained the idea of using an oil lamp to read by, but now I know how dangerous they are, and how much of an immense faff it is to clean them, I have dropped the notion for ever. And candles aren't what they used to be: they're much, much better, and for most of their life most were difficult to make, and stank. The upside was that if, like the builders of the first Eddystone lighthouse, you got trapped for days in a storm, you could eat them. Listas de sobresalientes
Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)621.3209Technology Engineering and allied operations Applied physics Electrical, magnetic, optical, communications, computer engineering; electronics, lighting LightingClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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