Domestic Lighting in Britain, 1879-1914. Competing technologies, design and social impact

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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