Optics and Wheels - A story of lighting from the primitive torch to the sealed beam headlamp
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Our knowledge of science is valuable only when it is usefully applied.
This book shows how the scientific facts of optics and light have been applied to solve the problem of safer night driving through the development of the "Sealed Beam" headlamp a co-operative project undertaken jointly by the automobile industry, lamp manufacturers and highway safety groups.
(1940 - Public Relations Staff GENERAL MOTORS)
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Optics and Wheels - A story of lighting from the primitive torch to the sealed beam headlamp - Ralph A. Richardson
OPTICS AND WHEELS
A story of lighting from the primitive torch to the sealed beam headlamp
By RALPH A. RICHARDSON - Research Laboratories Division
In Collaboration with the Lighting Engineers of General Motors Corporation
New digital edition of:
OPTICS AND WHEELS
by RALPH A. RICHARDSON - General Motors Corporation
© 1940 - General Motors - Detroit
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ISBN 978-88-96365-40-3
Source text and images taken from the Public Domain
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CONTENTS
Title
Colophon
Contents
FOREWORD
TORCHES TO TUNGSTEN
LIGHT
MANIPULATING LIGHT
BENDING LIGHT RAYS
THE EYE IS A SEALED RECEIVING SYSTEM
SEALED BEAM HEADLAMPS
TAIL AND STOP LIGHTS
FOG AND AUXILIARY LIGHTS
RESEARCH AND VISION
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
FOREWORD
FROM the beginning of the industry, all branches of science have contributed to the continuous improvement of the automobile, making it more dependable, more economical, safer. The science of optics, dealing with the nature and properties of light, is no exception. Our knowledge of science is valuable only when it is usefully applied. The following pages show how the scientific facts of optics and light have been applied to solve the problem of safer night driving through the development of the Sealed Beam
headlamp—a co-operative project undertaken jointly by the automobile industry, lamp manufacturers and highway safety groups.
TORCHES TO TUNGSTEN
PREHISTORIC man contributed many of the fundamentals upon which modern man depends for his present civilization. The discovery of the wheel, the cultivation of plants, the use of tools and the use of fire are all things which we take for granted. All of them represent tremendous advancements. They were the results of sound thinking and venturesome experimentation by unknown prehistoric men.
The caveman, some fifty thousand years ago, began man's winning battle over darkness. Some prehistoric man, more imaginative than the rest, plucked a burning brand from his fire and invented the torch. Light and fire came to symbolize all those things in life that were good and clean, the things men valued. Worship of the sun as the light giver spread to many ancient tribes. Darkness became the grim symbol of the unpleasant and feared and even of death itself. The rites of the fire worshippers, closely akin to sun worship, called for so much fire that whole countries were denuded of forests to supply the fuel. These religions have long since vanished from civilization, but their symbolism remains and man has never ceased to search for means of lighting the darkness. Until rather recent times the source of all artificial light was fire. The sun was the only important source of light which did not come