Published in 1882-5, this two-volume work, illustrated throughout, appeared when electric lighting was a fresh and propitious technological development.

How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines e

In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly—and prematurely—proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was foll

This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its ti

A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativi