Invented by Humphrey Davy in the early 19th century, arc lamps were developed in France until 1878 when R E B Crompton started to manufacture an improved version at his Arc Works in Chelmsford.

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

Saturday, December 21 is the shortest day of the year so we thought it would be a good time to appreciate the history of ...

IN the article on November 15, we saw how the professional rivalry between Henry Taunt and Joseph P Starling ensured that the photographic needs ...

1803 — 1809: First arc lamp created Humphry Davy demonstrated ... 1850 — 1859: Lightning in a tube In the 19th century, two Germans discovered that they could produce light by removing almost ...

Our top camping and outdoor releases, ranging from an "affordable" Airstream to a new bar for sustainable waterproofing.

Disney movies are filled with clever homages to other films, interconnected through Easter eggs and cameos. Characters from ...

Boutville gives an interesting account of the public lighting of Paris from the earliest times until the end of the nineteenth century ... gas mantles or open arc lamps was the better.

Hopie Hill makes a solo debut with "The Souvenirs" at Charles Moffett, presenting symbol-laden still lifes.

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized.