Myrtle Fahsbender — Residential Lighting

New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1947. Cloth. The first edition of an educational textbook on lighting in our homes, written by an expert who would later become the first female director of the Illuminating Engineering Society. The first edition of Residential Lighting, an educational textbook on lights in our homes, written by lighting expert and director of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation Myrtle Fahsbender. Published by D. Van Nostrand Company in 1947.In the publisher's original red pictorial cloth. Contains numerous in-text illustrations, as well as frontispiece and a colour plate showing the electromagnetic spectrum. Collated complete.Fahsbender began writing numerous articles on writing aimed for home decoration, which led to her becoming a popular and informed voice on the subject, presenting lectures across the United States during World War II. She was the first woman to be appointed the director of the Illuminating Engineering Society.This particular textbook looks at numerous types of lights across homes, from lamps to chandleirs, and those in garages. In the publisher's original red pictorial cloth. Externally, smart, with the small odd mark to boards. Slight edgewear and rubbing to joints, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. End papers are bright and clean, with slight age toning. Previous owner's details have been redacted with black ink to front free end paper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a browning patch to p.229, near top edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Unknown. Very Good Indeed .