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THIS society has been founded to bring together all those who are interested in the problems, practical and theoretical, of the art of directing and adapting light, that prime necessity of civilised, as well as of uncivilised, existence, to the use and convenience of man. To advance the subject of illuminating engineering, to investigate through all its lengthened breadth the facts within its domain, to increase and diffuse knowledge respecting them, and to unite those who are devoting their energies to these things, is the object of the society. The ascertained facts are few—all too few; their significance is immense; their economic and social value is great; but the ignorance respecting them generally is colossal
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Illuminating Engineering 1 . Nature 82, 172–174 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082172a0
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