Categories: Technology timelines | Lamps | Lighting | Graphical timelines (31st century BC - 30th century BC - 29th century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events 2925 - 2776 BC - First Dynasty wars in Egypt 2900 BC - Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia. ... A collection of lit candles on ornate candlesticks A close-up image of a candle showing the wick and the various regions of the flame. ... Antique bronze oil lamp with Christian symbol (replica) An oil lamp is a device used for lighting or for preserving a flame that is fueled by animal, vegetable or mineral oil. ... 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Aimé Argand (1755 - 1803) was Swiss physicist and chemist. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... William Murdoch. ... Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ... --69. ... Soho Foundry is a factory created by Matthew Boulton and James Watt at Smethwick, near Birmingham, England, for the manufacture of steam engines. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Manchester is a city in the North West of England and is famous for being the worlds first industrial city and considered by some to be Englands second city. ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... --69. ... Sir Humphry Davy. ... The 300,000-watt Plasma Arc Lamp in the Infrared Processing Center (IPC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory An arc lamp is a device that produces light by the sparking (or arcing, from voltaic arc or electric arc) of a high current between two carbon rod electrodes. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Sir Humphry Davy. ... Davy lamp The Davy lamp is a candle containing safety lamp devised in 1815 by Humphry Davy. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862) was born in Carmyllie near Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. ... The light bulb is one of the most significant inventions in the history of the human race, illuminating the darkness of the evening and bringing light indoors at all times in order focus on the task at hand. ... For other uses see Dundee (disambiguation) Dundee is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154 674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Russian wick kerosene lamp. ... Antique bronze oil lamp with Christian symbol (replica) An oil lamp is a device used for lighting or for preserving a flame that is fueled by animal, vegetable or mineral oil. ... take you to calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 3 miles behind. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (born March 8, 1822 - January 7, 1882) was the founder of the world petroleum industry. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Heinrich Göbel, or later: Henry Goebel (April 20, 1818 - December 4, 1893), born in Germany, was a watchmaker and inventor, an early pioneer who did much work on developing the light bulb. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Sculpting hot blown glass Glassblowing is the process of forming glass into useful shapes while the glass is in a molten, semi-liquid state. ... Heinrich Geissler (May 26, 1814 - January 24, 1879) was a German physicist. ... The Geissler tube is a glass tube for demonstrating the principles of electrical discharge. ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (March 24, 1820 - May 11, 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. ... A compact fluorescent lamp with an integrated electronic ballast A fluorescent lamp is a type of lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, resulting in a plasma that produces short-wave ultraviolet light. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Patent application On July 24, 1874, five years before Thomas Edisons U.S. patent, two Canadians, Henry Woodward, a medical student from Toronto, Ontario, and his friend Mathew Evans, a hotelkeeper, patented the first incandescent lamp with an electric light bulb. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov (Павел Николаевич Яблочков in Russian) (September 14/September 2 (O. S.), 1847 – March 31/March 19 (O.S.) 1894 ) was a Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp) and businessman. ... A Yablochkov candle (sometimes electric candle) is a type of electric carbon arc lamp, invented in 1876 by Pavel Yablochkov. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847–October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The incandescent light bulb uses a glowing wire filament heated to white-hot by electrical resistance, to generate light (a process known as thermal radiation). ... 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses of mantle see: mantle (disambiguation) An incandescent gas mantle, gas mantle, or Welsbach mantle is a device for generating bright white light when heated by a flame. ... Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 - c. ... A compact fluorescent lamp with an integrated electronic ballast A fluorescent lamp is a type of lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, resulting in a plasma that produces short-wave ultraviolet light. ... Lighting neon lamp, two 220/230 volt and 110 V neon lamps and a screwdriver with neon lamp inside A neon lamp is a gas discharge lamp containing neon gas (or in types with different colors also other noble gas) at low pressure. ... One-third scale replica of The Republic, which once stood in the great basin at the exposition, Chicago, 2004 The World Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Daniel McFarlane Moore was an American inventor who created in 1894 gas discharge lamps, known as Moore lamps, in much respects the precursor of today fluorescent lamps. ... Electric glow discharge is a type of plasma formed by passing a current at 100V to several kV through a gas - usually argon or another noble gas. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Walther Nernst. ... Nernst lamp, complete, model B with cloche, DC-lamp 0. ... Solid state may refer to: In computing: Solid state devices are data storage device components that uses memory chips, such as SDRAMs, to store data. ... An electrolyte is a substance that dissociates into free ions when dissolved (or molten), to produce an electrically conductive medium. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Peter Cooper Hewitt (May 5, 1861 - August 25, 1921) was an American electrical engineer, who demonstrated the mercury-vapor lamp for which he deposited a patent. ... A Mercury-vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp which uses mercury in an excited state to produce light. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Inspired in part by Daniel McFarlan Moores invention, Moore’s Lamp, Paris born chemist and inventor, Georges Claude invented the neon light by passing an electric current through inert gases made them light very brightly. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edmund Germer (August 24, 1901 - August 10, 1987) was a German inventor granted as the father of the fluorescent lamp for which he deposited U.S. Patent No 2,182,732 in 1926 with Friedrich Meyer and Hans J. Spanner. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Nick Holonyak Jr. ... Blue, green and red LEDs. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ... Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electrical potential difference (or voltage) across a conductor situated in a changing magnetic field. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The sulfur lamp is a microwave-powered electrodeless lighting system conceived by engineer Michael Ury, physicist Charles Wood and their colleagues in 1990 and further developed in 1994 by Fusion Lighting (USA), with support from the U.S. Department of Energy. ...