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Identifier: bulletinunitedst1391926unit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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s production. It was thought that these experiments might bean introduction to the utilization of this heatless light and that arevolution in illumination might follow. There was, however, onlyuncovered a problem of undreamed-of complexity, whose solutionawaits an indeterminate future.■* TORCH AND CANDLE There was a stage in history of illumination in which the torchwas almost the sole artificial light. The torch stage also comes closeup to and overlaps the inventive period, but is fast passing awaybefore modern appliances. A review shows that almost all tribes * Article in the Washington Herald, Aug. 24, 1910, from Harpers Weekly. See also Scientific Amer-ican Supplement, No. 1138, Oct. 23, 1897. •» Travels and Researches of A. von Humboldt, Edinburgh, 1832, p. 262. * F. Alex. McDermott. Recent Advances In and Knowledge of Light by^Living Organisms, Smith.Rept., 1911, pp. 345-362. This paper gives an extended bibliography of the subject. U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 139 PL. 32
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Firefly Lanterns Top, West Indies; bottom, Jav;iFor description of plate see pace 198 U. S NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 139 PL. 33

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