Lighting literature

[wide-lite 1000]

Sorry , couldn't help it !!! 

[Ria]

Har har

[wide-lite 1000]

 I never knew Groot liked HPS lamps ! 

[Ria]

We have quite a few lighting books, firstly all 4 editions of 'Lamps & Lighting' (various authors), plus a couple of Philips Technical Library books, 'High Pressure Sodium Lamps' by de Groot and Van Vliet and 'Gas Discharge Lamps' by Funke and Oranje which was published in 1951 and is a wonderful snapshot of a company in its heyday. Also we have 'The Bulb Factory', a history of Thorn's lighting factory in Buckie, Scotland (not a million miles from us, shame it is no more ) and lastly 'Why Sox Lights?' by Matthew Eagles.

There might be a few more, but those are the ones on the bookshelf behind me at the moment.

[wide-lite 1000]

 I have a 1942 copy of "Fluorescent Lighting Manual" By Charles L. Amick .  It's pretty neat and even has a bunch of info on the early RF fluorescent tubes and fixtures . 

[347vPowerlite]

I have a older IES lighting handbook from the late 70s which is quite fun to read though. I don't have them but I think the older books on HID lighting and fluorescent lighting are also pretty nice as well.

[Bulbman256]

Has anyone else gotten into the habit of collecting lighting books for supplemental information? I recently got a few for Christmas, including some on efficient fixture design from the 80s and one from 1952 on fluorescent lighting. A few days ago I received a book on pre-electric mine lighting from one of the staff members at my college. I told him about my hobby and one of his relatives wrote the book and had a few extra copies sitting around and he generously gave one to me. That book is very detailed and about a thousand pages long! At some point tonight I need to catalog all the books I have on lighting...