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Timeline of lighting technology
Timeline
of
lighting
technology
circa
3000 BC
Candles
are invented.
??? BC
oil lamps
1840
first
kerosene lamps
(
oil lamps
that burn fuel from petroleum)
1853
Ignacy Lukasiewicz[?]
invents
petrol lamp[?]
1792
William Murdoch
lights his house and office by means of gas.
c.
1802
Humphry Davy
demonstrates
arc-lighting
.
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
1867
A. E. Becquerel[?]
demostrates the first
fluorescent lamp
1875
Henry Woodward
patents the electric light bulb.
1876
Paul Jablochkoff[?]
invents the Jablochkoff 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.
1885
Incandescent
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.
1903
Peter Cooper Hewitt[?]
demonstrates the
mercury-vapour lamp[?]
.
1911
Georges Claude[?]
develops the
neon lamp[?]
.
1962
Nick Holonyak[?]
Jr. developed the first practical visible-spectrum
LED
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