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      1. Re: Arc Lighting
           From: "John Gilkison" <jgilkiso@zianet...>


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Message: 1
   Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:16:29 -0700
   From: "John Gilkison" <jgilkiso@zianet...>
Subject: Re: Arc Lighting

OLfers

    It seems this conflict between the artist and the business community
over
glarey artificial lighting has been with us since the inception. I am
reading a
new book "Empires of Light"  Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to
electrify the world, by Jill Jones copyright 2003.

    In the first chapter "Endeavor to Make It Useful" on page 47, I quote.

    One visitor to Paris hailed the arc light for its "magnificent
illumination,"
exclaiming , "The whole street, to the tops of the lofiest houses, is ablaze
with a flood of beaming light which makes the street seem like the scene
of some grand play at the opera." Robert Louis Stevenson, however, was
appalled when he first saw the arc lights of Paris, denouncing them as
"horrible,unearthly, obnoxious to the human eye; a lamp for a nightmare!
Such a light as this should shine only on murderers and public crime, or
along the corridores of lunatic asylums, a horror to heighten horror. To
look
at it only once is to fall in love with gas, which gives a warm domestic
radiance."
The French authorities and many businesspeople felt differently, and by
1878 the half mile of the supremely elegant avenue de l'Opera was ablaze
with arc lights, as were other major Parisian venues, including the Magasins
de louvres and the Theatre de Chatelet.

NPO President
John Gilkison




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