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early-lighting-timeline · nvcc-history-of-stage-lighting
- Citation
- nvcc-history-of-stage-lighting
- Claim ID
- early-lighting-timeline
- Assertion
- This course timeline dates Nicola Sabbatini's 1638 dimmer proposal (metal cylinders lowered over candles), Henry Drummond's limelight to 1803, the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia as the first fully gaslighted theatre in 1816, Sir Humphry Davy's electric arc to 1809, and England's Savoy Theatre as the first completely electric theatre in 1881.
- Locator
- section: Timeline
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