Author : Olin Jerome Ferguson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332534548
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)
Book Synopsis Electric Lighting (Classic Reprint) by : Olin Jerome Ferguson
Download or read book Electric Lighting (Classic Reprint) written by Olin Jerome Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electric Lighting Next to the human need for food, shelter and clothing, comes the need for artificial light. The meeting of this requirement, upon a large scale, becomes an engineering proposition and electric lighting stands prime among various agencies used therefor, when illuminants are classified according to their effectiveness, adaptability, flexibility and efficiency. There are few engineering activities which have advanced more rapidly during the last few years than have the art and practice of electric lighting. Illuminants have been steadily improved and refined. New types of lamps have been developed giving better colors of light, more efficient light production, cheaper units and a greater range of sizes. Principles of illumination have been studied and applied in the better solution of lighting problems. Indirect lighting, semior complete, has introduced great possibilities into the handling of both small and large installations. The economic value of good lighting is better appreciated. Color is beginning to play an important part in lighting schemes. It is destined to become even more widely utilized. There are excellent books which satisfactorily cover certain portions of the field which is understood to be included by the term "Electric Lighting." Generally speaking, however, they emphasize some one phase of the subject, to the partial exclusion of other equally worthy considerations. This limits their usefulness as text-books and it has been the aim of the author to meet the need in this particular by the production of a well-balanced presentation of fundamentals, with principles and practice appearing through the whole work. It is not thought necessary to make this treatise a voluminous one. Those users who desire more subject matter will find unlimited amounts of it in the sources which are frequently cited in the references made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.