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A heritage of light : lamps and lighting in the early Canadian home /
"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 Rus...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | RICH: Reprints in Canadian History.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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