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Electric Lights

Also known as Electric Lighting System

technology magic

Steady, too-even white light from electric lamps, glowing like bubbles, no fire needed

Category: technology magic
First appears: Book 4 · Ch. 1
Books: 2

Electric lights stand as one of the clearest emblems of Scadrial's industrial leap in the era after the Catacendre. In The Alloy of Law, they appear as a striking novelty in Elendel: steady, almost unnaturally even white glows housed in bulb-like globes that need no flame, a jarring contrast for Waxillium Ladrian after his years in the Roughs. By The Bands of Mourning, electric lighting has spread beyond the capital's elite districts to the outer cities and even onto trains. Its bright, wall-mounted illumination now marks a society steadily leaving gas lamps behind.

Evolution

BOOK 4The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
Steady, too-even white light from electric lamps, glowing like bubbles, no fire needed
BOOK 6The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel
Electric lighting systems in outer cities and trains, bright steady illumination different from gas lighting, mounted on walls