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Identifier: lightlighting07illu (find matches)
Title: Light and lighting
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Illuminating Engineering Society Association of Public Lighting Engineers (Great Britain)
Subjects: Lighting
Publisher: (London)
Contributing Library: Knox - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is said to have attracted quitea lot of attention. VOLUNTARY TOWN LIGHTING. Wi: cote from the Acetylene Lighting andWelding Journal that at Whiteheadthe lighting of the streets by oil lampswas recently carried ou1 solely throughvoluntary contributions. Bui Miss Mar-garet Robinson, President of the LightingCommittee, reported thai while some ofthe ratepayers contributed willingly to theLighting scheme, others did not, and thereceipts were insufficient for the carryingout <pf the work during another year. It appears thai the meeting terminatedwithoul any definite arrangements beingmade fr the winter, bo thai the town waspresumably lefl in darkness, bu1 severalof the speakers strongly urged thai publiclighting should come upon the rates. This is evidently ■ case where theenthusiasm oi the few did not overcome the inertia oi the many. Until j pie have enjoyed proper illumination, andthen have been lefl actually to do withoutit, they d not ap) lue. LIGHTING A LANDING.
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This shows a typical method of lightingsmall landings. The lamp is covered bya Holophane reflector and over this isplaced a Japanese paper shade, the colourof which harmonises with the wall-paper(deep red). Most of tlie light is directeddownwards, hut Bufficienl is transmittedto -how off the colours of the shade andheaded fringe. BLINDED BY MOTOR LIGHTS. Dbtveb oi Omnibus pails to ski .Maxin Tin: Roadway. Tiik following note, which appeared inthe Daily Graphic for Jan. 11th. illustratesthe confusing effecl of brilliant motorheadlights :— At the inqueel al Bedford yesterday onCharles Olroyd, deaf and dumb, whokilled by a motor-omnibus on Saturdaynight, the driver stated thai a brilliantly*lighted motor-oar passed him on theroad, and be could not see where hewas going for soup seconds afterwards.Be then -a« an objed lying in the roadtwo feel from t he bus. One of the wheelsd over it. He stopped and foundthat it was ()ln>yd. Tlw jury returned ,i verdict of accidentaldentil, and exp

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