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Humphry Davy created the first Arc Lamp. He uses volts from a battery, because the battery forms a greater amount of light than many candles
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Warren De la Rue used a platinum coil through a lamp to create an incandescent light bulb.
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The man by the name James Bowman Lindsay produce the first electrical charge inside of a glass tube.
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William Robert Grove successfully lit an entire stadium with incandescent lamps, which consist of a platinum coil.
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Using Davy's invention, Paris, France was the first city to use the Arc Lamp to light up homes.
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Fredrick de Moleyns received the first patent on the incandescent bulb.
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Swan started with experimenting with carbon filaments in a lab in England.
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Heinrich Geissler created a special tube that would help with containing the electrical flow. It paved the for neon signs.
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Joseph Swan and one of his apprentice created the very first light bulb, which was recorded by the Newcastle Chemical Society.
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Edison was not the first to create the light bulb, but he was the first to improve it. He patented the first lamp, and one later in the 1800s.
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Nikola Tesla worked on creating the first wireless lamp after Edison improved it.
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Heinrich Gobel won against Edison with the one who was the inventor of the electrical lamp.
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Paris, France demonstrated the first neon lighting. Neon lighting was created by Georges Claude at a Paris Motor Show.
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Edmund Germer created the first Florescent Light, which grew into popularity.
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New York City's companies demonstrated the uses of efficiency of the Florescent Light Bulb.
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Nick Holonyak Jr., who was working for General Electric, created the first visible spectrum light bulb in the for of red diodes.
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The Philips Company created a Florescent energy saving lamp.
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Osram answered with the first ever Electronic Energy Saving Lamp will be very successful.
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Philip's created a bulb that would last 60,000 hours while the Edison Bulb lasted 1,500 hours. Also, they listed it at a reasonable price.
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The man by the name Shuji Nakamura created the first LED lights. LED stands for Light Emitting Diodes.
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LED's create more light with less electricity and they more efficient and durable.
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The Energy Department hosted a competition to see which company's LED bulbs were more efficient. The company Philips won the competition.
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The cost of LED's have dropped 85%. Retailers will sell them at $10 or less.
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More than 49 million LED Bulbs were sold across America, which was saving $675 million in energy costs.
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The GE announced that they will not make any more compact Florescent Bulbs in the US.
