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A man named Humphry Davy created a lamp using volts from a battery. This light produced brightness greater than one thousand candles.
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A man named James Bowman Lindsay was the first person to make a glass bulb with an electrical charge inside of it.
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Paris broke a record when they became the first city to attempt lighting their streets with electric street lamps.
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A man named Heinrich Geissler created a special tube to use with electricity. It could contain an electric charge, and it would pave the way for neon and other types of lighting.
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Thomas Edison created a lamp in 1879, then a 16-watt light bulb in 1880.
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Mr. Tesla had worked clHe worked on creating a wireless electrical lamp.
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Paris demonstrated the first neon lighting, which was created by Georges Claude, at the Paris Motor Show.
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A man named Edmund Germer created a lamp for fluorescent lighting.
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At New York's World Fair, companies competed to demonstrated the efficiency of the fluorescent light bulb.
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The Philips Company created a fluorescent energy saving lamp. It was more efficient and used less energy but it was to expensive for consumers.
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Edison’s bulb could last for 1500 hours. Philips created a new fluorescent bulb that could last up to 60,000 hours and be produced at a reasonable price.
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A man named Shuji Nakamura created a new type of lighting. Using blue and white LED he started a revolution of LED lighting.
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The Energy department created a device that would combime LED's together to generate better lighting.
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The Energy Department decided to hold a contest for companies to create more efficient energy. Philips won the competition with an affordable LED bulb.
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As of 2012, more than 49 million LED bulbs were being used across America. This saved around $675 million in energy costs.
