TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brox,Jane
TI  - Brilliant:  the evolution of artificial light / 
SN  - 9780285640818
U1  - 621.3209 BRO 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  -  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Product design
KW  - Lighting
KW  - Lighting, Architectural and decorative--History
KW  -  History
N1  - The Earth at night as seen from space -- Lascaux : the first lamp -- Time of dark streets -- Lanterns at sea -- Gaslight -- Towards a more perfect flame -- Life electric -- Incandescence -- Overwhelming brilliance : the White City -- Niagara : long distance light -- New century, last flame -- Gleaming things -- Alone in the dark -- Rural electrification -- Cold light -- Wartime : the return of old night -- Lascaux discovered -- Blackout, 1965 -- Imagining the next grid -- At the mercy of light -- More is less -- The once and future light -- Lascaux revisited
N2  - Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution
ER  -