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The first lamp that sheds artificial light is invented by Humphry Davy.
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James Bowman Lindsay innovated it so that the light and the filament were contained in a glass bulb.
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Edward Shepard created an electrical incandescent arc lamp with a charcoal filament. In the same year, Joseph Wilson Swan began working on an electrical incandescent arc lamp with carbonized paper filaments.
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Henricg Globel, a German watchmaker, used a carbonized bamboo filaments in a glass bulb.
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Joseph Wilson Swan creatined the first long-lasting, practical light bulb, that lasted for 13.5 hrs, by using a carbon fiber filament.
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Thomas Alva Edison made the first oxygenless light bulb by placing the carbon filament he made into an oxygenless bulb. It burned for more than 40 hours.
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1880 - Edison continued to improved his lightbulb until it could last for over 1200 hours using a bamboo-derived filament.
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Willis Whitney invented a filament that would not make the inside of a lightbulb turn dark. It was a metal-coated carbon filament. This filament was a predecessor to the tungsten filament, our modern filament.
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The General Electric Company were the first to patent a method of making tungsten filaments for use in incandesent lightbulbs, but the filaments were costly.
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William David Coolidge improved the method of making tungsten filaments. The tungsten filament outlasted all other types of filaments and Coolidge made the costs practical.
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Philips invented a lightbulb that lasts 60,000 hours. The bulb uses magnetic induction.
