The Book Of Non Electric Lighting

Author : Tim Matson
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581578296
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Non-electric Lighting: The Classic Guide to the Safe Use of Candles, Fuel Lamps, Lanterns, Gaslights & Fire-View Stoves written by Tim Matson and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Matson surveys an often overlooked aspect of independent living—firelight. In this completely revised and updated classic, Matson describes in lively detail all the elements of firelight—beginning with an explanation of the lighting system he developed from his Vermont home. • The romantic history and modern molding of candlepower • Traditional kerosene lamps • The versatile Aladdin • Liquid propane (LP) gas lights • Kerosene and gas pressure lanterns (the Coleman) • Incandescent mantle safety • The "Return of Firelight" from glass-fronted hearths and stoves In addition, Matson shows how to select, assemble, install, and safely maintain these non-electric sources of light. This guide will be indispensable for vacation homes, camps, boats, RVs, independent homesteads—and anywhere in a blackout.

Author : Lewis Howard Latimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incandescent Electric Lighting written by Lewis Howard Latimer and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : R&c Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780990556466
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book 5 written by Ron Brown and published by R&c Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can see all the books available (so far) in this series by entering "The Non-Electric Lighting Series" in the Amazon search bar above. At this point, we've gone through candles and olive oil lamps and kerosene wick-type lamps and we've arrived at Book 5: Coleman Gas Lanterns. Time to get off the porch and play with the big boys. Pressure lanterns, though not as convenient as throwing a wall switch, will produce light on par with electric. Do you know the difference between Coleman Quick-Lite and Coleman Instant-Lite? You probably should if you're into prepping. It's nice to speak the language. It's nice to go to a flea market and know what you're looking at. Do Coleman Dual Fuel lanterns really burn automobile gas? This book has some first-hand test results. Plus recommendations about what to buy and what to avoid. And this book has an excellent section on carbon monoxide. YouTube has both good info and bad on carbon monoxide. But do you know which is which? Wouldn't it be nice to REALLY understand it? Well, the opportunity is at hand. Welcome aboard.

Author : Francis Bacon Crocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Lighting written by Francis Bacon Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124447
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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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 : Ron Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990556480
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book 6 written by Ron Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758844
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of Light written by Jill Jonnes and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.

Author : Catherine Rich
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265969
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting written by Catherine Rich and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding success of birds to behavioral and physiological changes in salamanders, many organisms are seriously affected by human alterations in natural patterns of light and dark. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting is the first book to consider the environmental effects of the intentional illumination of the night. It brings together leading scientists from around the world to review the state of knowledge on the subject and to describe specific effects that have been observed across a full range of taxonomic groups, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and plants. Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting provides a scientific basis to begin addressing the challenge of conserving the nighttime environment. It cogently demonstrates the vital importance of this until-now neglected topic and is an essential new work for conservation planners, researchers, and anyone concerned with human impacts on the natural world.

Author : Louis H. Latimer
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230314761
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incandescent Electric Lighting; a Practical Description of the Edison System written by Louis H. Latimer and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...on that branch be cut in one by one by turning the keys with which each socket is provided. For large chandeliers, a switch is generally arranged against the walls, at some suitable point in the room by which all the lamps on the chandelier may be turned on at one and the same time. Arrangements are often provided by which lamps may be turned on in the hall at the front door, and extinguished from the top of the stairs, thus allowing one to have a light before them in whatever part of the house they may choose to go. This is a matter of economy as well as convenience, for it allows of lamps being lit only when and where needed, enabling occupants to use light only in the rooms occupied, while the rest of the house remains in darkness that may be dissipated in an instant at the will of any individual occupant. Lights outside as well as in are equally under control, and the coming or retiring guest may be lighted to the farthest point of the most extensive grounds without the necessity of the host being in any way exposed to the weather. To crown all, these luxurious conveniences are furnished at a price to place them within the reach of persons of but ordinary means. After the plant is once installed there is only the cost of the light actually used. No leaking taps, or defective joints, no smoke or smell, or dirt--those unpleasant features inherent in all other forms of artificial illumination. The various devices once placed are likely to last under ordinary usage as long as the householder will probably live to enjoy them; the only exception to this general statement being the lamp itself which, with the proper current for which it is constructed, is guaranteed to last one thousand hours. As the lighting company replace all lamps burned...

Author : Thomas Gryta
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358250412
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lights Out written by Thomas Gryta and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could General Electric--perhaps America's most iconic corporation--suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace? This is the definitive history of General Electric's epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall. Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, powering everything from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the American societal mindset as few companies ever had. And after two decades of leadership under legendary CEO Jack Welch, GE entered the twenty-first century as America's most valuable corporation. Yet, fewer than two decades later, the GE of old was gone. ​Lights Out examines how Welch's handpicked successor, Jeff Immelt, tried to fix flaws in Welch's profit machine, while stumbling headlong into mistakes of his own. In the end, GE's traditional win-at-all-costs driven culture seemed to lose its direction, which ultimately caused the company's decline on both a personal and organizational scale. Lights Out details how one of America's all-time great companies has been reduced to a cautionary tale for our times.