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Subjects:

Lighting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Lighting -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Lighting -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Lighting -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Optical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Visual perception.

Language:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Light, Vision, and Power
1. The Victorian Eye: The Physiology, Sociology, and Spatiality of Vision, 1800-1900
2. Oligoptic Engineering: Light and the Victorian City
3. The Age of Inspectability: Vision, Space, and the Victorian City
4. The Government of Light: Gasworks, Gaslight, and Photometry
5. Technologies of Illumination, 1870-1910
6. Securing Perception: Assembling Electricity Networks
Conclusion: Patterns of Perception
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

ISBN:

9780226640785

OCLC:

567944008

Publisher Number:

10.7208/9780226640785 doi

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.