Author: GORE, GEORGE
Title: The Chemistry of Artificial Light: including the history of wax, tallow, and sperm candles, and the manufacture of gas, their various illuminating powers compared with animal and vegetable oils and a descriptive sketch of lamps and other apparatus
Description: London & Glasgow; Richard Griffin & Co. 1860.Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked. pebble-grain cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 140 pages; Subjects; Electric lamps -- Materials. Phosphors. Luminescence. Light and the origin of artificial lighting. Text within borders. Illustrations.Weight in Kg appr.:

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