Electricity and the Light Bulb
- ISBN-10
- 0761418784
- ISBN-13
- 9780761418788
- Category
- Electric lighting
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Marshall Cavendish
- Author
- James Lincoln Collier
Description
Traces the development of electric lighting.
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