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Author : Lawrence S. Cooke
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lighting in America written by Lawrence S. Cooke and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546647
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book American Illuminations written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright commercial lighting to create the world's most dazzling and glamorous cities. Illuminated fêtes and civic celebrations began in Renaissance Italy and spread through the courts of Europe. Their fireworks, torches, lamps, and special effects glorified the monarch, marked the birth of a prince, or celebrated military victory. Nineteenth-century Americans rejected such monarchial pomp and adapted spectacular lighting to their democratic, commercial culture. In American Illuminations, David Nye explains how they experimented with gas and electric light to create illuminated cityscapes far brighter and more dynamic than those of Europe, and how these illuminations became symbols of modernity and the conquest of nature. Americans used gaslight and electricity in parades, expositions, advertising, elections, and political spectacles. In the 1880s, cities erected powerful arc lights on towers to create artificial moonlight. By the 1890s they adopted more intensive, commercial lighting that defined distinct zones of light and glamorized the city's White Ways, skyscrapers, bridges, department stores, theaters, and dance halls. Poor and blighted areas disappeared into the shadows. American illuminations also became integral parts of national political campaigns, presidential inaugurations, and victory celebrations after the Spanish-American War and World War I.
Author : Michael Bennet
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802147828
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Land of Flickering Lights written by Michael Bennet and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colorado Senator offers “a sweeping diagnosis of the nation’s political ills . . . stitched together with assurances that room for redemption still exists” (New York Times Book Review). In The Land of Flickering Lights, Senator Michael Bennet lifts a veil on the inner workings of Congressional politics to reveal, in his words, “a series of actual stories—about the people, the politics, the motives, the money, the hypocrisy . . .” each of which demonstrates “the pathological culture of the capital and the consequences for us all.” Bennet unfolds the dramatic backstories behind the highly politicized confirmation battles over judicial nominations at all levels; the passage of the Trump tax law; the shredding of the Iran nuclear deal; the pervasive corruption unleashed by the influence of “dark money”; and the sabotage by a congressional minority of the “Gang of Eight’s” bi-partisan deal to reform America’s immigration policies. With frankness and refreshing candor, Bennet pulls the machinations behind these episodes into full public view, shedding vital new light on today’s political dysfunction. Arguing that each of us has a duty to act as a founder, he calls on Americans of all political persuasions to demand that the “winners” of our political battles be all the American people, nor one party or the other.
Author : Paul W. Keating
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lamps for a Brighter America written by Paul W. Keating and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert C. Darbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Lighting in America written by Herbert C. Darbee and published by . This book was released on with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur H. Hayward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Colonial and Early American Lighting written by Arthur H. Hayward and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book City Lights written by John A. Jakle and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Legal Theory is just over a decade old in the United States and is even younger in most other countries. Here, Francis Olsen presents the best articles from within this burgeoning field. Drawing on literature which is extremely rich and varied, these volumes include articles from a range leading legal scholars and feminists. Two volumes.
Author : General Electric Company. Outdoor Lighting Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Lighting for the Streets of America's Best-dressed Neighborhoods written by General Electric Company. Outdoor Lighting Department and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124447
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Age of Edison written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author : Nadja Maril
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book American Lighting, 1840-1940 written by Nadja Maril and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolution in lighting took place in the last part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth century. Nadja Maril explores the dramatic changes in lighting technology and form in this amply illustrated, informative volume. Using color photographs and rare catalog material, American Lighting concentrates on domestic lighting, making it an important work for home restorers and decorators seeking to capture an authentic look in their homes. The informative text and history of the American lighting industry makes it a welcome, valuable addition to the literature for historians, collectors, and others, interested in the development of American design and technology.
Author : Tom Beard
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1599621401
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Lighthouses of America written by Tom Beard and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular collection of America’s most iconic and stunning lighthouses. Through gorgeous photography, this book celebrates these unique and magnificent beacons and their history. The construction of lighthouses began as this new nation’s first public-works project in 1789 and established the United States as a maritime world power by making ports safe for navigation. These structures—many still active and serving their original purpose even in the era of global positioning systems—are living museums, yet they often prove difficult to access for visitors due to their necessary remoteness. From Maine’s West Quoddy Head on the easternmost headlands to the iconic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, and the West Coast lighthouses from New Point Loma to New Dungeness and Michigan’s Grand Haven Pier Lighthouse, the images here will delight both the armchair traveler and those who have taken the back roads or trekked across sandy beaches to visit these special and often artful buildings. This is a great gift for lovers of lighthouses, boaters, and those who live or dream of living on the seashore.
Author : Joseph Thomas Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Artificial Lighting in America, 1640-1840 written by Joseph Thomas Butler and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David L. DiLaura
Publisher : Illuminating Engineering
ISBN 13 : 9780879952099
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A History of Light and Lighting written by David L. DiLaura and published by Illuminating Engineering. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Zallen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653338
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book American Lucifers written by Jeremy Zallen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Author : Elmer Lewis Smith
Publisher : Applied Arts Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780911410396
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Early Lighting written by Elmer Lewis Smith and published by Applied Arts Pub. This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Troy Paiva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610606530
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Lost America : The Abandoned Roadside West written by Troy Paiva and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields. The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America still standing, yet largely forgotten.
Author : Ballard, F.W., & company, Cleveland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Street Lighting in the United States of America, 1920 written by Ballard, F.W., & company, Cleveland and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
