The History of The Lamp

By EladHaleva
  • 10,000 BCE

    Oil lamp

    Oil lamp
    An oil lamp is an object used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source.
  • 500 BCE

    Candle

    Candle
    A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance, that provides light.

  • Gas lamp

    Gas lamp
    Gas lighting is production of light from combustion of a gaseous fuel. The first gas lamp was invented by William Murdoch and used coal gas.

  • Edison's light bulb

    Edison's light bulb
    Edison's first light bulb worked by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb.

  • Fluorescent lamp

    Fluorescent lamp
    A low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light, invented by a team led by George E. Inman.

  • compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)

    compact fluorescent lamp (CFL)
    A fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent light bulb (Edison's light bulb).
    Invented by Edward E. Hammer.

  • LED lamps

    LED lamps
    An electric light that produces light using one or more light-emitting diodes. Nick Holonyak, Jr. invented the first LED.