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Timeline of lighting technology
Timeline
of
lighting
technology
circa
3000 BC
Candles
are invented.
??? BC
oil lamps
1780 Ami Argand invents central draught fixed oil lamp
1784 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp
1792
William Murdoch
lights his house and office by means of gas.
1840
first
kerosene lamps
(
oil lamps
that burn fuel from petroleum)
1853
Ignacy Lukasiewicz
invents petrol lamp
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
.
1841
Arc-lighting used as experimental public lighting in
Paris
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
.
c.
1889
Incandescent
gas mantle
invented, revolutionises
gas lighting
.
c.
1893
Nikola Tesla
uses cordless low pressure gas discharge lamps, powered by a high frequency electric field, to light his laboratory.
1894
D. McFarlane Moore
creates the Moore tube, precursor of electric gas-discharge lamps.
1901
Peter Cooper Hewitt
demonstrates the mercury-vapour lamp.
1911
Georges Claude develops the
neon lamp
.
1926
Edmund Germer
patents the
fluorescent lamp
.
1962
Nick Holonyak
Jr. developed the first practical visible-spectrum
light-emitting diode
