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1. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk › electric-lighting-homeElectrifying: The story of lighting our homes | Science Museum

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   Jan 28, 2020 · In his 2009 book 43 Principles of Home, designer Kevin McCloud describes the use of multiple types of lighting—task, ambient, directional and decorative—in the design of a 'good lighting scheme'. The lure to add ever-more light to our homes is hard to resist.

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3. www.english-heritage.org.uk › history-of-lightingThe illuminating history of lighting | English Heritage

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   Nov 6, 2017 · It was only after the First World War that electricity found its way into most of our homes. Lightbulbs improved and the National Grid was established. For the first time in human history, we had clean, safe lighting at the flick of a switch.

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4. www.museumofthehome.org.uk › lighting-up-our-homesFrom candles to electric lights | Museum of the Home

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   Jan 13, 2021 · The invention of the incandescent light bulb in the 1870s (subject to a fierce dispute between Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan), kicked this revolution into overdrive. Homes were provided with a constant, strong illumination without the toxic fumes of gas lighting or the continual vigilance needed for candles.

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6. www.buildingconservation.com › articles › lightingLighting in the Victorian Home - Building Conservation

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   By Queen Victoria's death in January 1901, electric lighting was still in its infancy. Gas lighting was common in the cities and larger towns, supplemented by candles and oil lamps, but in smaller towns and villages and in the countryside lighting remained almost exclusively by candles and oil lamps.

7. lucyworsley.com › a-quick-history-of-domestic-lightingA quick history of domestic lighting | Lucy Worsley

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   Several Fifth Avenue millionaires installed generators in their houses in 1880s New York, and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt even went to a costume ball as Electric Light. But these early adopters ran the risk of accidents.

8. www.amusingplanet.com › 2019 › 04Cragside: The World’s First House To Have Electric Lights

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   Apr 2, 2019 · Nearly a decade before Thomas Edison began working on incandescent lamps and a more affordable way to bring the bright world of electricity to Victorian homes, a fine country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England, was lit entirely by electricity.

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   Did Victorian homes have electric lights?

   • Photograph of a Victorian drawing room lit by four electric wall lights, from Hammond’s 1884 book. 1950s advertising shot showing various styles of pendant lampshade. Many of these styles are fashionable today. Despite this, many homes had very little electric lighting, especially as it needed to be retrofitted to older buildings.

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   Who invented the electric light in our homes?

   • Cover of The Electric Light in Our Homes by electrical engineer Robert Hammond, 1884. The cover features cutting-edge lamp bulbs by four inventors: Swan, Lane Fox, Swinburne and Edison. Photograph of a Victorian drawing room lit by four electric wall lights, from Hammond’s 1884 book.

   Electrifying: The story of lighting our homes | Science Museum

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   When did electric lighting start?

   • By Queen Victoria's death in January 1901, electric lighting was still in its infancy. Gas lighting was common in the cities and larger towns, supplemented by candles and oil lamps, but in smaller towns and villages and in the countryside lighting remained almost exclusively by candles and oil lamps.

   Lighting in the Victorian Home - Building Conservation

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   What was home lighting like in the 1900s?

   • Homes were provided with a constant, strong illumination without the toxic fumes of gas lighting or the continual vigilance needed for candles. There were people still left behind of course. In some rural areas the cheapest and most readily available form of light remained homemade candles and rushlights even into the 1900s.

   From candles to electric lights | Museum of the Home

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   Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

   • The invention of the incandescent light bulb in the 1870s (subject to a fierce dispute between Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan), kicked this revolution into overdrive. Homes were provided with a constant, strong illumination without the toxic fumes of gas lighting or the continual vigilance needed for candles.

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   Why are electric streetlamps so popular?

   • While gas provided relatively gentle illumination, the huge electric arc streetlamps which began appearing in the 1870s gave out an intense light. Light was produced by an electric current which arced between two carbon rods—hence the name. The development of electric generators made them a practicable solution for lighting public spaces.

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10. britishheritage.org › en › joseph-swanJoseph Swan - The Lightbulb | British Heritage

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    The incandescent light bulb, which Swan independently developed around the same time as Thomas Alva Edison in the United States, was a transformative innovation. With his bulb, Swan ushered in a new era of electric illumination, replacing the unreliable and hazardous gas lighting of the time.