Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth CenturyExamines the interplay between new and revolutionary technology and nineteenth-century imagination. |
Contents
Fire and Flame | 4 |
The wick | 5 |
Glass cylinders for Argand lamps | 12 |
Gaslight | 14 |
Thermolamp late eighteenth century | 22 |
Retort room in a London gasworks 1821 | 30 |
Gas flames | 41 |
Electrical Apotheosis | 50 |
The expansion of street lighting | 117 |
American lighting tower 1885 | 125 |
Project for city illumination 1882 | 131 |
Firework display Stuttgart 1616 | 139 |
Shop Windows | 143 |
Shop window illuminated by gaslight about 1870 | 145 |
Garden aspect of the PalaisRoyal | 151 |
Light in the drawingroom | 159 |
Jablochkov Candle | 53 |
Early electric light bulbs and filaments | 59 |
Edisons dynamo 1881 | 65 |
Electric jewels | 72 |
Before the introduction of street lighting | 83 |
Reflector lamp réverbère Paris mideighteenth | 92 |
Lanterns and lanterner | 99 |
Lantern smashing in Vienna 1848 | 111 |
A Flood of Light | 114 |
The curtain | 170 |
Electric lights 1887 | 177 |
Footlights | 194 |
A stage lit up by electric light | 200 |
The Darkening of the Auditorium | 203 |
The central chandelier | 210 |
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Académie des Sciences Adolph von Menzel ancien régime Anwendung der Bühnenbeleuchtung arc lighting Archiv für Kunst Argand burner Argand lamp audience auditorium baroque Berlin bourgeois bright brighter brightly bulb burning candle chandeliers coal colours combustion Cornelius Gurlitt created curtains darkened darkness developed diorama display distance drawing-room Edison effect eighteenth century electric light elektrische Entwicklung und Anwendung festive illumination filament fire fireworks French fuel gas flame gas industry gas-works gaslight gasometer Gaston Bachelard glass Gottfried Semper Herlaut illuminated image illusion incandescent intensity Kunst und Geschichte L'Eclairage des rues lampshades lantern smashing Lebon London Lumière électrique nature night nineteenth century oil-lamp painting panorama Paris pipes police produced public lighting Quoted from ibid reflector réverbères Revolution rues à Paris seventeenth shades shops space stage lighting street lanterns street lighting Sun Tower supply switch technical theatre thermolamp tion torch type of light wick Winsor