OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Lengthening the Day.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 March 1999-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Lengthening the Day (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:100399 * Modern life is inconceivable without control over the dark of night -- find out more about the history of lighting and its impact on society * A History of Lighting Technology * Dr Brian Bowers, Senior Curator, Science Museum, London People have always wanted and needed light, and until the nineteenth century the only useful source of light was flame.

Electricity brought clean light without flame, and without much heat. In Lengthening the Day, Brian Bowers looks at the ways in which people have made light to lengthen their day. It explains how oil lamps, candles, and gas lights work and, drawing on writings of the time, shows how...