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The Arc lamp
The Arc lamp was created by a man named Humphrey Davy. He created it using volts from a battery. The light produced was brighter than 1000 candles! -
A light bulb
The light bulb was invented by a man named Bowman Lindsay. It was a glass bulb with an electrical charge inside. -
Light up the night
Paris broke a record for having the city filled with electric street lights. -
The Geissler Tube
Heinrich Geissler was the man who created a special tube to use with electricity. It could contain an electric charge, and it would led the way towards neon lighting -
Thomas Edison’s Designs
Thomas Edison creates a 16 watt light bulb -
Nicola Tesla
Mr Tesla started working on creating a wireless electrical light -
Neon lighting
Georges Claude from Paris demonstrated the first neon lighting system -
Fluorescent lighting
A man named Edmund Germer created a lamp for fluorescent lighting. -
The world fair
At New York's World Fair, companies had a competition showing the efficiency of the fluorescent light bulb. -
Energy saving lighting
The Philips Company created a fluorescent energy saving lamp. It was a lot more efficient and used way less energy but it was too expensive for most consumers. -
Longer lasting bulbs
Edison’s bulb could last for 1500 hours. Philips created a new fluorescent bulb that could last up to 60,000 hours and was produced at a reasonable price for customers. -
The LED light
Shuji Nakamura created a new type of lighting. Using blue and white LED he started a new revolution of LED lighting -
LED’S pushing forward
The Energy department created a device that would combime LED's together to generate better and more efficient lighting -
The L prize competition
The Energy Department decided to hold a contest for companies to create more efficient energy. Philips won the competition with an affordable LED bulb. -
Energy saving
As of 2012, more than 49 million LED bulbs were being used across America. This saved around $675 million in energy costs.
