Pacific service magazine . Lamps of a century or two agi. (Courtesy of Dr. M. Luckieshand the Century Company.) Pacific Service Magazine 45 ing this discoveryhas been indulgedin by historicalauthorities. says:A study of sav-age tribes of thepresent age, com-bined with a sur-vey of past his-tory, of myth-ology, of materialrelics and of theabsence of lampsor other lightingutensils, leads tothe conclusionthat the earliestsource of lightwas the wood fire,made by energet-ically but skill-fully rubbingsticks A. Hoadley, Past President of theIlluminating Engineering Society,

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Pacific service magazine . Lamps of a century or two agi. (Courtesy of Dr. M. Luckieshand the Century Company.) Pacific Service Magazine 45 ing this discoveryhas been indulgedin by historicalauthorities. says:A study of sav-age tribes of thepresent age, com-bined with a sur-vey of past his-tory, of myth-ology, of materialrelics and of theabsence of lampsor other lightingutensils, leads tothe conclusionthat the earliestsource of lightwas the wood fire,made by energet-ically but skill-fully rubbingsticks A. Hoadley, Past President of theIlluminating Engineering Society, in hismonograph on Illumination writes: We donot know how the first fire and light wereproduced by the cave man. It may havebeen by. carefully observing the burning.

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