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Jan 28, 2020 · Lighting the pre-electric home. Before gas or electric lighting were invented, the greatest light source indoors usually came from the fixed fire in the grate. Home activities revolved around the hearth, with candlelight or oil lamps providing dim (but mobile) light around the home.
Jan 29, 2009 · Lighting would obviously have been required in underground shelters and variations on candles and parafin lamps would have been most common. In rear areas large numbers of stationary engines would presumably have been used to generate electricity.
- Michael, Out of personal choice, with well-armed and quite proficient German: snipers, artillery, rifle-grenadiers, and minenwerfers opposite, I wo...
- It takes 20 minutes or so for eyes to fully adapt to the dark. A dim red light does the least damage to that. A flash of any of these lanterns woul...
- I'm not sure that fire trenches would be lit at all. After all even lighting a cigarette at night could be risky. Electric torches with some sort o...
- Centurion, How did dugouts arrange their electric light ? was it battery - rather unreliable - portable power generator - were these devices availa...
- There wouldn't be much need for light at night, all essential kit would be worn or carried by the individual. It would be a rare to have zero visib...
- I never said it was reliable! Cables were led down communications trenches from rear areas (as were telegraph and phone cables) which were less vul...
- It depended somewhat on the scale of the dugout, but certainly some had electric light. Candles were commonly used; candle stubs are found in archa...
- Yes I suppose lighting a fire trench would not be the brightest idea ( ). I was wondering if a lantern lit in a corner in order to guide sentries r...
- I've read somewhere of a dark lantern left where its light could not be seen from outside the trench - not for illumination but to provide a safe w...
- Need to be careful over names - Hurricane lamps or lanterns were in production as early as the last part of the nineteenth century but these were n...
Jan 13, 2021 · The electric light bulb has afforded homes with instantaneous bright light and is now considered one of the most basic necessities. Find out more about the Domestic Game Changers.
Nov 6, 2017 · A new type of oil lamp that provided as much light as ten candles was invented by French chemist Ami Argand in 1780. John Griffin, the forward-thinking owner of Audley End House in Essex, was an early adopter.
In the late 19th century, Thomas Edison revolutionized the lighting industry with the invention of the incandescent light bulb. This revolutionary technology used a filament made of carbon or tungsten that emitted light when heated by an electric current.
Many of the electric light fittings shown were converted chandeliers and sconces with light bulbs protruding from imitation candles, illustrating a nostalgia for the candle which remains as strong today.
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For centuries, rushlights were the poor person’s light-source of choice. You make them by repeatedly coating a rush in hot fat, building up the layers to create a rather scrawny candle. These long, gently-curving lights were balanced in special holders.
