Identifier: lightlighting07illu (find matches)
Title: Light and lighting
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Illuminating Engineering Society Association of Public Lighting Engineers (Great Britain)
Subjects: Lighting
Publisher: (London)
Contributing Library: Knox - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A view of the Tea Room of Messrs. Stewart & Co.. Old Bond St. (basement), lighted by Tungsten Lamps in Holophane Reflectors. (Photo taken entirely by artificial light.) Stewart & Co. (50, Old Bond Street,London, W.). A tea room of this kind,situated in the entertainment and shopping area of London, requires a bright and cheerful illumination; the most of the lighting being accomplished by 3-light chandeliers. Besides the basement and the after-noon tea room on the first floor, the front shop is also lighted in this way. LIGHTING OF THE UNDERGROUND NEW CHARING CROSS STATION (EMBANKMENT). Londoners are by now become familiar with the new underground station at Charing Cross (Embankment), which forms such a convenient junction for the Underground Railway, the Charing Cross, Highgate and Hampstead Tube, and the Bakerloo Tube. Whereas, until recently, it was necessary to leave the Underground station and make a detour through the streets to reach either of the two tubes, one can now enter them direct by means of the series of moving stairways.
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A few words may be said as to the lighting of this station, illustrated by two photographs taken by the kind permission of the Underground Railway Co. Fig. 1 shows the method of lighting the platform of the Charing Cross and Hampstead Tube terminus. This is lighted by metal filament lamps in Superlux globes and Benjamin rings, the units being spaced at intervals of about 25 feet. A test showed that an illumination on the platform from 0*8—1*2. The second photograph (Fig. 2) shows the entrance to one of the moving stair-ways. The lighting of this staircase is decidedly good, the lamps are screened by plates across the ceiling so as to be invisible to the descending passengers.

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