Stage Lighting

• Antique and Collectible lighting. A huge list of links to illustrations and resources for antique lighting fixtures. (A site on the DMOZ Open Directory Project.)

• History of the Arc Lamp. Short, informative discussion from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), with some useful links.

• European Gas Flame Association. Superb illustrations of early gas lamps, burners, meters, radiators, etc. Excellent links to other preservation and historical groups. With both English and French text.

• Glossary of Lighting Terminology

• Go Antiques Excellent commercial resource for antique lighting instruments, many from the 19th century collection.

• Google Directory of Antique Lighting. A very comprehensive directory of antique lighting web pages maintained by the Google search engine.

• A History of Light and Lighting, Edition: 2.2 (1999). Bill Williams' delightful chronology of light and lighting, with theory and practice from the birth of the sun to the present.

• Bill Williams and Associates, Lighting Designers and Theatre Consultants (Canada). Williams maintains The World Lighting Links a site which includes architectural, theatre, entertainment and scientific lighting links; The Lighting Library; and Stage Lighting 101, a great overview of lighting for students, teachers and professionals as well. Visit the firm's home page.

• Lightbulbs, Lighting and Lamps. A short, semi-scholarly review of the development of lightbulbs, with numerous links to the inventors.

• Lighting Links. Commercial site with good links to antique lighting instruments. The home page contains links to antique lamp catalogs and ephemera.

• Lighting a Revolution: Smithsonian Institution electric lighting history. A good elementary site with interesting links.

• The Regency Collection: Gas Lighting, a discussion and chronology, with illustrations from the London stage.

• Stage Lighting Bibliography and Lighting Design Source. "LightingDesignSource is a resource for lighting design students at the University of Virginia." Not recently updated, but an excellent bibliographic and information resource.