Timeline of lighting technology
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at:1780 text:"Oil lamp" at:1794 text:"Gas lamp" at:1801 text:"Platinum filament" at:1820 text:"Vacuum tube lamp" at:1841 text:"Arc lamp" at:1854 text:"Bamboo filament" at:1867 text:"Fluorescent lamp" at:1875 text:"Electric light bulb & globe" at:1880 text:"Long lasting filament" at:1893 text:"Gas discharge lamp" at:1901 text:"Mercury-vapor lamp" at:1910 text:"Tungsten filament" at:1926 text:"Fluorescent lamp" at:1962 text:"LED or solid state" at:1991 text:"Magnetic induction lamp" |
- Since the world began, people used the sun as their main source of light.
- 70,000BC A whole rock or shell or other natural found objects was filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked in animal fat and then ignited
- circa 3000 BC candles are invented.
- circa 400 BC oil lamps
- 1780 Aimé Argand invents central draught fixed oil lamp
- 1784 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp
- 1792 William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting and probably produced the first gas light in this year.
- 1802 William Murdoch illuminated the exterior of the Soho Foundry with gas.
- 1805 Phillips and Lee's Cotton Mill, Manchester was the first industrial factory to be fully lit by gas.
- 1813 National Heat and Light Company formed by Fredrich Winzer (Winsor).
- c. 1802 Humphry Davy demonstrates arc-lighting in free air.
- 1815 Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.
- 1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee.
- 1840 first kerosene lamps (oil lamps that burn fuel from petroleum)
- 1841 Arc-lighting used as experimental public lighting in Paris
- 1853 Ignacy Lukasiewicz invents petrol lamp
- 1854 Heinrich Gobel invents the first incandescent lamp by passing an electric current through a carbonized bamboo filament that was placed inside of a glass bulb
- 1856 glassblower Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a tube.
- 1867 A. E. Becquerel demonstrates the first fluorescent lamp
- 1875 Henry Woodward patents the electric light bulb.
- 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris.
- 1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp.
- 1880 Edison produced a 16 watt lightbulb that lasts 1500 hours.
- c. 1889 Incandescent gas mantle invented, revolutionises gas lighting.
- 1893 Nikola Tesla uses cordless low pressure gas discharge lamps, powered by a high frequency electric field, to light his laboratory. He displays fluorescent lamps and neon lamps at the World Columbian Exposition.
- 1894 D. McFarlane Moore creates the Moore tube, precursor of electric gas-discharge lamps.
- 1897 Walther Nernst invents and patents his incandescent lamp, based on solid state electrolytes.
- 1901 Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapor lamp.
- 1911 Georges Claude develops the neon lamp.
- 1925 The first frosted lightbulbs were produced.
- 1926 Edmund Germer patents the fluorescent lamp.
- 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. develops the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode
- 1991 Philips invents a fluorescent lightbulb that lasts 60,000 hours. The bulb uses magnetic induction.
- 1994 First commercial sulfur lamp.
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