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Amazon.com Review:
The story of the development of artificial light in the 19th century is not only a history of its technology but a revelation of how that technology helped forge modern consciousness. The range of subjects includes the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shop window, and the importance of the salon in the bourgeois culture. Very Highly Recommended.

Rating : - From fire light to near sunlight day and night
Those books that you missed or wished you had read, good books in great shape hardback or paperback.
The industrialization of light follows the need to see in the dark and dust from the flickering fire and torch to the 21st century.
Mankind lost and gained when he went from burning branches to the 21st century lighting. We needed to see well when we started learning how to put nature to work and create knowledge and put it to work. As a person in his eightyfourth year of life, from lil lamps to inflourescent better lighting was a necesity created by an invention. I remember gas lighting but this book filled me in on the things of this great trip that I did not know and helped me understand the stops along the way.

We lost some family togetherness but we gained a foothold on life.