Domestic Lighting in Britain, 1879-1914. Competing technologies, design and social impact
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- Author(s) Dillon, Maureen
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1997
- Publisher University of Brighton
- Place Published Brighton
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- Name Design issues
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- Name Brighton University Library
- City Brighton
- County East Sussex
- Country England
- Postcode BN2 4AT
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A social and technological account dealing, inter alia, with competition between lighting based on gas and on electricity, light fittings, etc. Covers in particular the lighting equipment firms of William Sugg & Co Ltd and Edison & Swan United Electric Light Co Ltd/Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd. See also the writer's 'Artificial Light. A social history of domestic lighting', 224pp, 2002