Well, I did everything in my power to stop it from happening. All my neighbors put their snowblowers and shovels away, people pulled out their driveway stakes, and even my own wife took her hat ...

Invented by Humphrey Davy in the early 19th century, arc lamps were developed in France until 1878 when R E B Crompton started to manufacture an improved version at his Arc Works in Chelmsford.

One doesn’t have to watch too many movies set in the Victorian/Edwardian period to think that most streets circa 1880-1900 were much like this one, dark and scary in a ...

Among the ongoing projects to restore the Calumet Theatre to its early grandeur, the restoration of the projector room, or ...

THE uniform intrinsic brilliancy and compactness of the tungsten arc lamp have led to its extensive application as an illuminant for photomicrography. It does not appear to be generally recognised ...