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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1916
Page
27
A curious exhibit in the National Museum traces the evolution of light from crude devices to modern conveniences. The display highlights key milestones and crafts a narrative of human ingenuity in illumination.
A Washington National Museum display traces illumination from firelight to electric lamps. Curator Dr. Walter Hough explains early natural lights, torches, candles, oil lamps, and the 19th century rise of coal gas and electric lighting, including Edison’s carbon filament lamp and tungsten improvements.
The piece presents a wartime litany by Kathleen Burke describing front lines life in France. It outlines a chain of conditional certainties about mobilization front lines danger wounds recovery and death in a stark, reflective wartime voice.
Edgar Allan Poe's former workshop, the Southern Literary Messenger Building, ordered demolished by court for safety concerns. A citizens' committee sought to preserve it as a memorial to Poe, who wrote early works there, but the structure will be razed and moved to Richmond College grounds.
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