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July 1929

LIGHTING AND THE HYGIENE OF THE EYE

Author Affiliations

BALTIMORE
From the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical School.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1929;2(1):1-26. doi:10.1001/archopht.1929.00810020004001
Abstract

A few years ago, one of the past presidents of the Illuminating Engineering Society said in addressing that society : "Like crabs, producers and distributors of light have approached their objective backwards. They have spent millions of dollars in creating and distributing a commodity without ever seriously asking themselves what was needed by the consumer, the eye." In 1911, a committee composed of engineers and medical men convened in Philadelphia to consider the problem of lighting in relation to the eye. No more pertinent recommendation was discussed at that time than that we revert by imitation as nearly as possible to the illuminants of our fathers, the candle and the kerosene flame; that the intensities and color of illumination so obtained were best for the eye. At that time, a very popular reflector was the old Holophane clear ribbed glass product, designed to give evenness of distribution of light,

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