The Lighting Art: Its Practice and Possibilities (1st Edition)
- Author(s): M. Luckiesh
- Category: Books, Paper & Magazines
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Publish year: 1917
- ISBN: 9678000019424
- Number of Pages: 241
Mankind has enjoyed such an abundance of natural daylight throughout the entire existence and evolution of the human race that the present general indifference to the possibilities in lighting is easily accounted for. With the advent of artificial light-sources of greater adaptability, the activities of man changed considerably and as modern artificial illuminants are readily controllable there naturally has arisen a new science and art, namely, that of lighting.
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COVER
PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I - THE BROAD ASPECT OF LIGHTING
CHAPTER II - EXPRESSIVE POSSIBILITIES OF LIGHT
CHAPTER III - VISUALIZATION
CHAPTER IV - VARIETY THE SPICE OF LIGHTING
CHAPTER V - DISTRIBUTION OF LIGHT
CHAPTER VI - LIGHTING FIXTURES
CHAPTER VII - LIGHT AND COLOR
CHAPTER VIII - COLORED ILLUMINANTS
CHAPTER IX - THE PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGY OF COLOR
CHAPTER X - SIMULATING THE SPECTRUM OF DAYLIGHT
CHAPTER XI - APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL DAYLIGHT
CHAPTER XII - SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF COLORED LIGHT
CHAPTER XIII - SIMPLE PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT-CONTROL
CHAPTER XIV - LIGHTING AND ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER XV - THE PORTABLE LIGHTING-UNIT
CHAPTER XVI - RESIDENCE LIGHTING
CHAPTER XVII - COMMERCIAL LIGHTING
CHAPTER XVIII - LIGHTING IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS
CHAPTER XIX - INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING
CHAPTER XX - STAGE-LIGHTING
CHAPTER XXI - SPECTACULAR LIGHTING
CHAPTER XXII - COMPUTATIONS AND DATA
CHAPTER XXIII - NATURAL LIGHTING
CHAPTER XXIV - THE LANGUAGE OF COLOR
INDEX