Author: Keating, John D.
Title: The Lambent Flame.
Description: Melbourne Melbourne University Press (MUP), 1974. Hardback oblong quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, minimal edgewear. 123 pp. The Lambent Flame, by John Keating (Melbourne University Press, 1994). The story of gaslight lamps in Australia, first introduced in 1841, but much improved as street lighting from the 1870s. Although not an industrial history, this book explains technicalities and the developments upon which the utilisation of gas depended. It celebrates an aesthetic and efficient source of energy, and an urbane and inventive period in Australia's history. ISBN: 0522840671

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