The Manufacture of Light: A Lecture Delivered at the Meeting of the British Association at York (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Thompson, Silvanus Phillips

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332878717 ISBN 13 : 9781332878710

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Manufacture of Light: A Lecture Delivered at the Meeting of the British Association at York

Primitive man also discovered that a piece of dry wood, or a rope of grass dipped into melted fat, would make an excellent torch; and by dipping a dried rush into molten tallow he procured for himself in small portable form a candle. To substitute a woven wick, and to dee means of casting tallow or wax around the wick in a mould, were improvements deed a little more than a hundred years ago. If we were to go back to the days of good Queen Bess we should find that the means of lighting either hovel or palace were primitive in the extreme. In the guttering of the rushlights and the splutter and smell of the lamps fed with animal oil we should scarcely rejoice.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1906. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332878717
• ISBN 13: 9781332878710
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 74
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