J.N. Aldington and electric lighting

Much has been written about the development of the electric arc and the filament lamp, but very little about the history of discharge and fluorescent lighting. Their development may, however, be followed in the technical journals from the late 1920s on, and the name of J.N. Aldington often appears. He was actively involved in many aspects of lighting development, though his special interest was the high-pressure mercury arc. He wrote and lectured on lamps and lighting, and on the history of electric lighting. He became a Fellow of the IEE and President of the Illuminating Engineering Society. This paper gives an account of his life and the developments in which he was involved and is drawn mainly from papers which the Aldington family have recently given to the Institution Archives