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This is the first electrical lamp but for miners only. The safety lamp is very bright and it is not use for residential areas. The lamp works by electricity connect to a piece of charcoal, creating a bright spark and it burns out quicky.
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James Bowman Lindsay was the first to demonstrate a eletric light to the public of Scotland. The eletric light use eletrictiy consantly, to some people they say this was the first ever inventor of the incandescent light bulb.
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Two germans discoverd that eletric light could be produce by removing most of the air in a long tube then passing eletric currents through it, they called the tube the "Geissler Tube".
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Thomas Edison begin to patent the Incandescent Lights, by first testing carbon, then platinumthen to a carbon filament.
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Thomas Edison proved that a centrally located generator can distribute power to a lighting system.
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Peter Cooper Hewitt created a fluorescent light that shows blue and green light by pasing electric current through mercury vapor.
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This was sold at the European market, these bulbs last longer then Thomas Edison's Incandescent light bulb.
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Irving Langmuir discover that if he fill gases like nitrogen instead of sucking air out of the light bulb will increase the efficiency of the Incaandescent light bulb.
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European researchers were doing experiments with neon tubes coated with phosphors, then the United States begin research too.
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Nick Holonyak, Jr. first created the LED
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Edward Hammer at General Electric figured out how to bend the fluorescent tube into a lot of shapes.
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The blue LED was created then shortly the white LED was made with blue, green, red LED lights.
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Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura in Japan made a discovery on more enegry efficient Blue LED.
