Timeline of lightingtechnology Alternative meanings: Timeline is a 1999 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton Timeline is a 2003 film based on the novel. ... Lighting refers to either artificial light sources such as lamps or to natural illumination of interiors from daylight. ... } the surface of the planet for the first time and explore space. ...
Since the world began, people used the sun as their main source of light.
70,000BC A whole rock or shell or other natural found objects was filled with moss or a similar material that was soaked in animal fat and then ignited
1854Heinrich Gobel invents the first incandescent lamp by passing an electric current through a carbonized bamboo filament that was placed inside of a glass bulb