History of electric light
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1. Front matter2. Introductory material3. FOREWORD4. CHRONOLOGY OF ELECTRIC LIGHT5. EARLY RECORDS OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM6. MACHINES GENERATING ELECTRICITY BY FRICTION7. THE LEYDEN JAR8. ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY CHEMICAL MEANS9. IMPROVEMENT OF VOLTA’S BATTERY10. DAVY’S DISCOVERIES11. RESEARCHES OF OERSTED, AMPÈRE, SCHWEIGGER AND STURGEON12. OHM’S LAW13. INVENTION OF THE DYNAMO14. DANIELL’S BATTERY15. GROVE’S BATTERY16. GROVE’S DEMONSTRATION OF INCANDESCENT LIGHTING17. GRENET BATTERY18. DE MOLEYNS’ INCANDESCENT LAMP19. EARLY DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ARC LAMP20. JOULE’S LAW21. STARR’S INCANDESCENT LAMP22. OTHER EARLY INCANDESCENT LAMPS23. FURTHER ARC LAMP DEVELOPMENTS24. DEVELOPMENT OF THE DYNAMO, 1840–186025. THE FIRST COMMERCIAL INSTALLATION OF AN ELECTRIC LIGHT26. FURTHER DYNAMO DEVELOPMENTS27. RUSSIAN INCANDESCENT LAMP INVENTORS28. THE JABLOCHKOFF “CANDLE”29. COMMERCIAL INTRODUCTION OF THE DIFFERENTIALLY CONTROLLED ARC LAMP30. ARC LIGHTING IN THE UNITED STATES31. OTHER AMERICAN ARC LIGHT SYSTEMS32. “SUB-DIVIDING THE ELECTRIC LIGHT”33. EDISON’S INVENTION OF A PRACTICAL INCANDESCENT LAMP34. EDISON’S THREE-WIRE SYSTEM35. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALTERNATING CURRENT CONSTANT POTENTIAL SYSTEM36. INCANDESCENT LAMP DEVELOPMENTS, 1884–189437. THE EDISON “MUNICIPAL” STREET LIGHTING SYSTEM38. THE SHUNT BOX SYSTEM FOR SERIES INCANDESCENT LAMPS39. THE ENCLOSED ARC LAMP40. THE FLAME ARC LAMP41. THE CONSTANT CURRENT TRANSFORMER FOR SERIES CIRCUITS42. ENCLOSED SERIES ALTERNATING CURRENT ARC LAMPS43. SERIES INCANDESCENT LAMPS ON CONSTANT CURRENT TRANSFORMERS44. THE NERNST LAMP45. THE COOPER-HEWITT LAMP46. THE LUMINOUS OR MAGNETITE ARC LAMP47. MERCURY ARC RECTIFIER FOR MAGNETITE ARC LAMPS48. INCANDESCENT LAMP DEVELOPMENTS, 1894–190449. THE MOORE TUBE LIGHT50. THE OSMIUM LAMP51. THE GEM LAMP52. THE TANTALUM LAMP53. INVENTION OF THE TUNGSTEN LAMP54. DRAWN TUNGSTEN WIRE55. THE QUARTZ MERCURY VAPOR ARC LAMP56. THE GAS-FILLED TUNGSTEN LAMP57. TYPES AND SIZES OF TUNGSTEN LAMPS NOW MADE58. STANDARD VOLTAGES59. COST OF INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LIGHT60. STATISTICS REGARDING THE PRESENT DEMAND FOR LAMPS61. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY