Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Oct. 25, on p. 41, col. 3, a clear implication, if not a direct statement, is made to the effect that indirect lighting was invented in Germany by Bauhaus workmen...
This is doubtless an error. I believe it has been generally conceded that the discovery and introduction of indirect lighting was attributable to the work of the late Mr. Augustus D. Curtis...
TIME erred. As early as 1908 Mr. Curtis gave a demonstration in his Chicago home of "directing light to the ceiling by powerful silvered reflectors." The Bauhaus does not claim the invention of indirect lighting, but is credited with its outstanding modern development. One invention the Bauhaus does claim, is the "bleeding off" of photographs in books and magazines (running them across margins and off the edge of the pages...
...addition a special employee has been stationed behind the desk in the Delivery Room, whose job it is to trace all lost books and those reported missing. Further, the overhead lighting in the Reading Room has been doubled in intensity during the last three weeks. The indirect lights already installed on the tables do not work so well with a vaulted ceiling as with a flat, white ceiling, but the overhead illumination has been doubled to overcome a part of this difficulty...
...school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...