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[edit]Antiquity
70,000 BCE A hollow rock, shell, or other natural found object was filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked in animal fat and ignited.
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[edit]18th century
1792 William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting and probably produced the first gas light in this year.
[edit]19th century
1800 French watchmaker Bernard Guillaume Carcel overcomes the disadvantages of the Argand-type lamps with his clockwork fed Carcel lamp.
1800-1803 Humphry Davy remarks first carbon arc when using Voltaic piles(Batteriey) for his electrolse experiments. First electric lamp, over 10000 lm
and thus 1000times brighter than candles. Demonstrated to the public at the Royal Society 1809 [3]
1802 William Murdoch illuminated the exterior of the Soho Foundry with gas.
1805 Philips 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)
1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee.
1840 modern kerosene lamps (oil lamps that burn fuel from petroleum)
1856 glassblower Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a Geissler tube.
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. It lasted 40 hours.
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.
[edit]20th century
1910 Georges Claude demonstrates neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show.
1938 Lightolier, Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, Globe, fluorescent fixture making.[5]
1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. develops the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode
1981 Philips sells their first Compact Fluorescent Energy Saving Lamps, with integrated conventional ballast
1985 Osram answers with the first electronic Energy Saving Lamps to be very successful [6]
1991 Philips invents a fluorescent lightbulb that lasts 60,000 hours. The bulb uses magnetic induction.
1992-94 a team at Nela Parc, Cleveland, GE, with Jack Strok creates ceramic metal halide lamps (CMH). Philips follows under W.de Kock and calls their
versions CDM Ceramic Discharge Metal. Sales begin 1994. This technology improves to be the superior lighting technology with up to 150 lm/W with
good color rendering and 20.000h life at very high lumen maintenance [4]
1994 the new T5 lamps with cool tip are introduced to become the leading fluorescent lamps with up to 117 lm/W with good color rendering. These
and almoast all new fluorescent lamps are to be operated at electronic ballasts only. [7]
1995 Shuji Nakamura at Nichia labs invents first blue and, with additional Phosphor, white LED, and starts a LED boom. [8]
[edit]21st century
2011 Philips wins L Prize for LED screw-in lamp equivalent to 60W incandescent A-lamp for general use.
[edit]References
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^ Zayn Bilkadi (University of California, Berkeley), "The Oil Weapons", Saudi Aramco World, JanuaryFebruary 1995, pp. 2027.
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^ Dr.Thomas Klett, Geschichte der Lichttechnik/History Lighting , Bernard Gorowitz Ed., The General Electric Story
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