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Was created by Humphry Davy
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Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp
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1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 40 hours. The light bulb contains a tungsten filliment in which electrical current flows.
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The first flourescent lamp was made by Peter Cooper Hewitt. A fluorescent lamp is a lamp that uses mercury vapour gas to produce visible light.
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Paris continued setting the stage for the newest designs in electrical lighting. They demonstrated the first neon lighting, which was created by Georges Claude, at the Paris Motor Show.
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The first Led was created by Oleg Losev. A LED is a semiconductor light source that emits light when current flows through it.
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A halogen lamp is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed into a compact transparent envelope that is filled with a mixture of an inert gas and a small amount of a halogen such as iodine or bromine.
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Ching W. Tang and Steven Van Slyke create the first practical organic light-emitting diode.
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A man named Shuji Nakamura created a new type of lighting. Using blue and white LED, or light-emitting diodes, he started a revolution of practical LED lighting.