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 demonstrates 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. 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.
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