{"id":4735,"date":"2021-06-29T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T08:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2021-06-29T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T08:19:49","slug":"the-forgotten-era-of-light-reflectors-in-londons-alleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2021\/06\/the-forgotten-era-of-light-reflectors-in-londons-alleys.html","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten era of Light Reflectors in London\u2019s alleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/light-reflectors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/light-reflectors-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/light-reflectors-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/light-reflectors-500x299.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/light-reflectors-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/light-reflectors.jpg 1395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A visitor to Victorian London who found themselves in its many narrow alleys would have seen large numbers of wooden shutters reflecting sunlight into the offices. These weren\u2019t just wooden shutters though, but Chappuis\u2019 Patent Daylight Reflectors, invented by a French photographer based on Fleet Street in 1850, and there was a whole range of them to improve lighting inside buildings before widespread electric lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ianvisits.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/02\/17\/the-forgotten-era-of-light-reflectors-in-londons-alleys\/\">The forgotten era of Light Reflectors in London\u2019s alleys<\/a>, Ian Visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to Victorian London who found themselves in its many narrow alleys would have seen large numbers of wooden shutters reflecting sunlight into the offices. These weren\u2019t just wooden shutters though, but Chappuis\u2019 Patent Daylight Reflectors, invented by a French photographer based on Fleet Street in 1850, and there was a whole range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}