Light bulb

The history of the light bulb.

By DREWBSKILLZ

  • Oil Lamps

    Oil Lamps
    Ami Argand invented the first oil lamp

  • Gas lamps

    Gas lamps
    In 1792, the first commercial use of gas lighting began when William Murdoch used coal gas for lighting in his house in Redruth, Cornwall.

  • The First Lightbulb

    The First Lightbulb
    Sir Humphrey Davy created the first carbon arch lamp.

  • Kerosene Lamps

    Kerosene Lamps
    1859, drilling for petroleum oil began and the kerosene lamp grew popular

  • The Theory of the Florescent Lamp

    The Theory of the Florescent Lamp
    Becquerel of France theorized about the fluorescent lamp

  • Neon Lights

    Neon Lights
    Georges Claude of France invented the neon lamp.

  • Tungsten FiIament Bulb

    Tungsten FiIament Bulb
    American, Irving Langmuir invented an electric gas-filled tungsten lamp.

  • Fluorescent Light Bulb is Patented

    Fluorescent Light Bulb is Patented
    Friedrich Meyer, Hans Spanner, and Edmund Germer patented a fluorescent lamp.

  • Halogen Lamps

    Halogen Lamps
    U.S. Patent 2,883,571 was granted to Elmer Fridrich and Emmett Wiley for a tungsten halogen lamp which is an improved type of incandescent lamp.

  • First street lamps

    First street lamps
    Charles F. Brush of the United States invented the carbon arc street lamp.