Opinion

American Influences on Australian Lighting Design

April 2, 2009
By Ruby Rude
American Influences on Australian Lighting

Electrified candle brackets with wrought iron or aluminium holders and brass or timber candelabra with small individual fabric shades in imitation American colonial or mission style were common during the 1920s and 1930s. They were hung in Spanish mission or neo-colonial styled homes and also in Californian homes. It was quite often the case...

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The Development of Urban Lighting

March 28, 2009
By Ruby Rude

The phenomenon of magnetic and electric effects was studied by ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman scientists. In 1750, Benjamin Franklin, an American writer, tried to collect electrical charges in a kite during a thunderstorm. An Italian scientist and Professor of the University of Pavia made an appreciable step forwards with the discovery of the...

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