History of evolution of current lighting fixtures. Antiquity edit • 0,000 BC A hollow rock, shell, or other natural found object was filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked in animal fat and ignited. citation needed • c. 00 BC oil lamps • c. 000 BC candles are invented. • c. 00 AD Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi (Rhazes) invents kerosene lamp • c. 000 The first street lamps appear in Cordoba, Al-Andalus 2 8th century edit • 80 Aimé Argand invents central draught fixed oil lamp • 8 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp • 2 William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting and probably produced the first gas light in this year. th century edit • 800 Liam Callaghan native of Gurteen Na Coille overcomes the disadvantages of the Argand-type lamps with his cockwork fed yaris. • 800- 80 Humphry Davy remarks first carbon arc when using Voltaic piles(Batteriey) for his electrolse experiments. First electric lamp, over 0000 lm and thus 000times brighter than candles. Demonstrated to the public at the Royal Society 80 • 802 William Murdoch illuminated the exterior of the Soho Foundry with gas. • 80 Philips and Lee's Cotton Mill, Manchester was the first industrial factory to be fully lit by gas. • 8 National Heat and Light Company formed by Fredrich Winzer (Winsor) • 8 Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp. • 8 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee. • 8 0 modern kerosene lamps (oil lamps that burn fuel from petroleum) • 8 Arc-lighting used as experimental public lighting in Paris • 8 Ignacy Lukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp • 8 glassblower Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a Geissler tube. • 8 A. E. Becquerel demonstrates the first fluorescent lamp • 8 Henry Woodward patents an electric light bulb. • 8 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris. • 8 Thomas Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 0 hours. • 880 Edison produced a -watt lightbulb that lasts 00 hours. • c. 88 Incandescent gas mantle invented, revolutionises gas lighting. • 8 GE introduces first commercial fully enclosed carbon arc lamp. Sealed in glass globes, it lasts 00h and therefore 0 times longer than hitherto carbon arc lamps • 8 Nikola Tesla puts forward his ideas on high frequency and wireless electric lighting which included public demonstrations where he lit a Geissler tube wirelessly. • 8 D. McFarlane Moore creates the Moore tube, precursor of electric gas-discharge lamps. • 8 Walther Nernst invents and patents his incandescent lamp, based on solid state electrolytes. 20th century edit • 0 Peter Cooper Hewitt demonstrates the mercury-vapor lamp. • 0 Georges Claude demonstrates neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show. • 2 The first internal frosted lightbulbs were produced. • 2 Edmund Germer patents the fluorescent lamp. • 8 Lightolier, Artcraft Fluorescent Lighting Corporation, Globe, fluorescent fixture making. • 2 Nick Holonyak Jr. develops the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode • 8 Philips sells their first Compact Fluorescent Energy Saving Lamps, with integrated conventional ballast • 8 Osram answers with the first electronic Energy Saving Lamps to be very successful • 8 The "White" SON sodium vapor lamp is introduced. • Philips invents a fluorescent lightbulb that lasts 0,000 hours. The bulb uses magnetic induction. • 2- a team at Nela Park, Cleveland, GE, with Jack Strok creates ceramic metal halide lamps (CMH). Philips follows under W.de Kock and calls their versions CDM Ceramic Discharge Metal. Sales begin . This technology improves to be a superior lighting technology with up to 0 lm/W with good color rendering and 20.000h life with very high lumen maintenance • T lamps with cool tip are introduced to become the leading fluorescent lamps with up to lm/W with good color rendering. These and almost all new fluorescent lamps are to be operated on electronic ballasts only. • First commercial sulfur lamp. • Shuji Nakamura at Nichia labs invents first blue and, with additional Phosphor, white LED, and starts a LED boom.

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