A Heritage of Light : : Lamps and Lighting in the Early Canadian Home / / Loris Russell.
The nineteenth century opened in the flicker 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. Loris Russell rec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 1854 to 1860
- 8. Those new-fangled lamps 1861 to 1869
- 9. Everybody used kerosene 1870 to 1885
- 10. Swan song of the kerosene lamp 1886 to 1900
- 11. Light the gas
- 12. Thank you, Mr, Edison
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index