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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Russell, Loris S. (Loris Shano), 1904-1998 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
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  • P
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  • St
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