CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Gas lights painted sepia tones on thousands of waiting Clevelanders in the city's central square an hour after sunset April 29, 1879. Twelve electric arc lamps ringing Monumental ...

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 Sherlock Holmes/Jack the Ripper ...

STREET LIGHTING. In 1846 the Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Co. was organized, spelling the end for oil-fired lamps, which were noted by publications of the time to be in for their "final trimming." ...

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HISSING is one of the few phenomena connected with the electric arc with which every one is more or less familiar. In the old days the sudden, almost complete, extinction of the light of an arc-lamp, ...

THIS book surprises the reader by its extraordinary inequality: its excellencies in some directions and its absolute badness in others. Either the author, who is understood to be a professor at ...