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A deck prism, or bullseye, is a prism inserted into the deck of a ship to provide light down below. [1] [2] [3] For centuries, sailing ships used deck prisms to provide a safe source of natural sunlight to illuminate areas below decks. Before electricity, light below a vessel's deck was provided by candles, oil and kerosene lamps—all dangerous
Sidewalk prisms developed from deck prisms, which were used to let light through the decks of ships. The earliest pavement light (Rockwell, 1834) [16] used a single large round glass lens set in an iron frame. The large lens was directly exposed to traffic, and if the lens broke, a large hole was left in the pavement, which was potentially ...
Some forms of prism lighting have been used for centuries, and others are 21st-century. Deck prisms were set into the upper decks of ships to light the decks below. Pavement lights were set into floors or sidewalks to let light into a basement below. The underside was frequently extended into prisms to direct and spread the light. [3]
Prism lighting is the use of prisms to improve the distribution of light in a space. It is usually used to distribute daylight , and is a form of anidolic lighting . Prism lighting was popular from its introduction in the 1890s through to the 1930s, when cheap electric lights became commonplace and prism lighting became unfashionable.
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Prism glass can be found on sidewalks, where it is known as vault lighting, [15] in windows, partitions, and canopies, where it is known as prism tiles, and as deck prisms, which were used to light spaces below deck on sailing ships. It could be highly ornamented; Frank Lloyd Wright created over forty different designs for prism tiles. [16]
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