Illuminating Engineering Society
1944; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 154; Issue: 3911 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/154483b0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)Impact of Light on Environment and Health
ResumoTHE presidential address delivered by Mr. E. Stroud at the opening meeting of the Illuminating Engineering Society on October 10 took the form of a survey of the Society's activities and its future. The Society was formed by Mr. Leon Gaster in 1909 and its first president was Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson. At that time there was little information in regard to lighting practice, and the instruments available for the measurement of illumination were few and cumbersome. Much original work was done by Mr. A. P. Trotter and other early pioneers to deal with the lighting of schools and libraries and other subjects. The setting up of the Home Office Committee on Factory Lighting in 1913 was an important landmark. During the War of 1914–18 members of the Society did useful work on the measurement of the candle-power of flares and the brightness of radium compounds for coating gunsights, etc., and the year 1915 saw the issue of the first of the series of reports on factory lighting issued by the Departmental Committee. During the first twenty years the foundations of the Society were laid. The floodlighting of London buildings, which accompanied the holding of the International Illumination Congress in London in 1931, did much to direct attention to its work. Efforts were made to create interest in the provinces, where the first centre, in Manchester, was formed in 1932.
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