How Man Made Day

Duration: 11

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: 0729 PA8999 How Man Made Day, Traces man's development of light from primitive to modern times. Shows how the cave man used fire for his light as well as his heat, how methods of reducing the heat and increasing the light of fire were devised, how kindle-lights and teapot lamps were used, how the candle was probably discovered and how it was made, the lighting of cities, and, more recently, the use of the neon and the fluorescent light.

Complete Record: 0729 PA8999 How Man Made Day, Traces man's development of light from primitive to modern times. Shows how the cave man used fire for his light as well as his heat, how methods of reducing the heat and increasing the light of fire were devised, how kindle-lights and teapot lamps were used, how the candle was probably discovered and how it was made, the lighting of cities, and, more recently, the use of the neon and the fluorescent light.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.