Earth:The Social History of Lighting
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Short description: 1958 book by William T. O'Dea
The Social History of Lighting, by William T. O'Dea, is a nonfiction book about the history of artificial lighting from prehistory through the present. It was first published by Macmillan Inc., in 1958.[1][2] O'Dea had previously been the keeper of the Science Museum, London.[3]
It received a generally positive review from E.S. Turner in The Daily Telegraph.[4]
References
- ↑ Watkins, C. Malcom (1959-11-27). "The Social History of Lighting. William T. O'Dea. Macmillan, New York, 1958. xiii + 254 pp. Illus. $8.50.". Science 130 (3387): 1468–1468. doi:10.1126/science.130.3387.1468.a. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.130.3387.1468.a.
- ↑ Newman, James R.; O'Dea, William T. (1959). "Review of The Social History of Lighting, O'DeaWilliam T.". Scientific American 201 (2): 158–160. ISSN 0036-8733. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24940370.
- ↑ Mardaljevic, John (2022-12-01). "Editorial: Daylight – time it was history" (in EN). Lighting Research & Technology 54 (8): 747–747. doi:10.1177/14771535221136976. ISSN 1477-1535. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14771535221136976.
- ↑ Turner, E.S. (1958-05-09). "Turning night to day". The Daily Telegraph: pp. 15. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-turning-night-to-day/177987980/.
