Timeline of the light bulb

By Jimmy O. Popper

  • The first Arc Lamp

    Humphry Davy created a lamp using volts from a battery.

  • A light bulb

    James Bowman Lindsay is the first man to contain an electrical charge in a glass bulb.

  • Geissler Tube

    Heinrich Geissler created a special tube to use with electricity.

  • Thomas Edison's Light bulb designs

    Thomas Edison patented a lamp and a 16-watt light bulb

  • Longer lasting bulbs

    The Philips Company create a new fluorescent bulb that can last 60,000 hours then Edison's 1500 hour light bulb

  • The LED light

    Shuji Nakamura makes a new type of lighting which uses white and blue LED.

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