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A man named Humphry Davy created a lamp using volts from a battery, which produced light greater than one thousand candles.
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James Bowman Lindsay was the first person to contain an electrical charge inside of a glass bulb
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Paris became the first city to attempt lighting their streets with electric street lamps.
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Heinrich Geissler created a special tube that could contain an electric charge.
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Thomas Edison created a lamp that lasted longer and required less power than previous designs.
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Mr.Tesla worked on creating a wireless electrical lamp that would work at high voltages
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Paris continued setting the stage for the newest designs in electrical lighting. They demonstrated the first neon lighting, which was created by Georges Claude, at the Paris Motor Show.
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A man named Edmund Germer created a lamp for fluorescent lighting.
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At New York's World Fair, companies demonstrated the efficiency of the fluorescent light bulb.
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The Philips Company created a fluorescent energy saving lamp. It used an integrated conventional ballast.
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When Edison created his 16-watt bulb, it could last for 1500 hours. Philips created a new fluorescent bulb that could last up to 60,000 hours.
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A man named Shuji Nakamura created a new type of lighting. Using blue and white LED, he started a revolution of LED lighting
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The Energy department recognized the need for greater efficiency in electric lighting. They created a device that would package LED's together to generate better lighting.
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As of 2012, more than 49 million LED bulbs were being used across America. This saved around $675 million in energy costs
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