City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

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Figure 2-2: Top. Luminous fountains brighten the night at the close of the Universal Exposition in Paris November 6, 1889. (Scientific American, Dec. 14, 1889, p. 376) Bottom. Daytime view of illuminated fountains (from La Nature, first half year 1889, Fig. 3 on p. 593)
Figure 2-3: A mirror aimed light from an arc lamp into the center of the parabolic jets at the Universal Exposition. The hollow nozzle generated a tube of flowing water, lit from inside by the reflected light. Large-scale picture (top) from La Nature, first half year 1889, p. 408; cutaway (below) by author.
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114 CITY OF LIGHT that fiber-optic
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280 NOTES TO PAGES 13-17 6. Daniel
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330 INDEX Barlow, Harold 86, 110, 1
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332 INDEX Endoscopes 41-44, 51, 57-
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