DocumentCode
1548985
Title
Lighting your country house
Author
Bowers, Brian
Volume
89
Issue
11
fYear
2001
fDate
11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1723
Lastpage
1726
Abstract
Today we assume that electricity for our lights is readily available from the mains, but a hundred years ago that was not necessarily the case. Your correspondent has recently been looking at a large house in a rural part of England where, in the 1890s, the owner decided to adopt electric light, and consequently had to install his own generating plant. Now the house is open to the public, and the present owners wish to reconstruct the 1890s generating plant as a visitor attraction
Keywords
history; lighting; country house; electric lighting; generating plant; history; Air pollution; Batteries; Books; Engines; Fires; Helium; Lamps; Levee; Magnetohydrodynamic power generation; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9219
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/5.964448
Filename
964448
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