Lighting in America
Author | : Lawrence S. Cooke |
Publisher | : Sterling/Main Street |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Lawrence S. Cooke |
Publisher | : Sterling/Main Street |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : David E. Nye |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0262546647 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0802147828 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Electric lamps |
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Author | : Herbert C. Darbee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Lighting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ernest Freeberg |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0143124447 |
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 | : Arthur H. Hayward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Lighting |
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Author | : Tom Beard |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1599621401 |
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 | : David L. DiLaura |
Publisher | : Illuminating Engineering |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780879952099 |
Author | : General Electric Company. Outdoor Lighting Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : Electric light fixtures |
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