Author: Ralph A. Richardson
Publisher: Edizioni Savine
ISBN: 8896365406
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
From the beginning of the industry, all branches of science have contributed to the continuous improvement of the automobile, making it more dependable, more economical, safer. The science of optics, dealing with the nature and properties of light, is no exception. Our knowledge of science is valuable only when it is usefully applied. This book shows how the scientific facts of optics and light have been applied to solve the problem of safer night driving through the development of the "Sealed Beam" headlamp a co-operative project undertaken jointly by the automobile industry, lamp manufacturers and highway safety groups. (1940 - Public Relations Staff GENERAL MOTORS)
Optics and Wheels - A story of lighting from the primitive torch to the sealed beam headlamp
Author: Ralph A. Richardson
Publisher: Edizioni Savine
ISBN: 8896365406
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
From the beginning of the industry, all branches of science have contributed to the continuous improvement of the automobile, making it more dependable, more economical, safer. The science of optics, dealing with the nature and properties of light, is no exception. Our knowledge of science is valuable only when it is usefully applied. This book shows how the scientific facts of optics and light have been applied to solve the problem of safer night driving through the development of the "Sealed Beam" headlamp a co-operative project undertaken jointly by the automobile industry, lamp manufacturers and highway safety groups. (1940 - Public Relations Staff GENERAL MOTORS)
Publisher: Edizioni Savine
ISBN: 8896365406
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
From the beginning of the industry, all branches of science have contributed to the continuous improvement of the automobile, making it more dependable, more economical, safer. The science of optics, dealing with the nature and properties of light, is no exception. Our knowledge of science is valuable only when it is usefully applied. This book shows how the scientific facts of optics and light have been applied to solve the problem of safer night driving through the development of the "Sealed Beam" headlamp a co-operative project undertaken jointly by the automobile industry, lamp manufacturers and highway safety groups. (1940 - Public Relations Staff GENERAL MOTORS)
American Lucifers
Author: Jeremy Zallen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Planning, Regulation, and Competition: Automobile Industry, 1968
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Retailing, Distribution, and Marketing Practices
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Considers the effects of the automobile industry's planning and regulating activities on competition. Includes "Automobile Industry: A Case Study of Competition" by General Motors Corp. (p. 617-728).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Considers the effects of the automobile industry's planning and regulating activities on competition. Includes "Automobile Industry: A Case Study of Competition" by General Motors Corp. (p. 617-728).
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Planning, Regulation, and Competition: Automobile Industry - 1968, Hearings Before Subcommittees ... 90-2, on the Question: are Planning and Regulation Replacing Competition in the American Economy? (the Automobile Industry as a Case Study), July 10, 23, 1968
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Catalog of Free and Inexpensive Teaching Aids for High Schools
Author: Clement Joseph Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free material
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free material
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Visual and Teaching Aids for Safety Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Motor Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Physics
Author: Constance Marie Conroy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description