History of Lights - Everything you need to know

1. History Of Lights

2. How Lights came into being? Everything you need to know! Light is anything that enables vision through its physical stimulus. Years after years, people continued to use fuel for lighting, be it to brighten a dark room or to light wooden logs. Over 3000 years ago, the use of resinous pine torches was mentioned by Homer in his poems. He stated that “a resinous pitch is very flammable and luminous when burned for lighting.” For more interesting blogs, keep on reading articles on Building Materials Reporter.

3. During the ancient period before light was invented, the Romans used bundled sticks where the pitch was melted and smeared to make more controllable torches. Over 4500 years ago, the confirmation of oil being used to burn lamps came in Ur, an ancient city in Southern Mesopotamia which is now a part of Iraq. At least 3000 years ago, the cultivation of Olive oil had spread throughout the Mediterranean that became widely used for lighting. In 1780, Antoine Lavoisier invented a hollow, circular wick and burner which was more luminous and efficient than previous oil lamps.

4. During 1st century A.D., the use of Modern candles began in Rome which was too expensive for ordinary lighting and it was used only for liturgical purposes. By 1825, the cost of gaslight was a quarter to that of oil lamp or candles. During these times, the invention of Gas lighting, the conventional oil or candle lamp were replaced.

5. In 1854, Kerosene, a liquid hydrocarbon was discovered and named by Abraham Gesner which was an ideal illuminating characteristic. It was exclusively used in rural areas. During 1860, England and France started to use Arc lights powered by electric dynamo machines. By October 1880, the British inventor Joseph Swan designed the perfect working Incandescent lamps which were later started to be made in 1881.

6. In October 1878, Thomas Alva Edison built a high-resistance illuminate lamp which had a filament. Later, between 1880 and 1920, more efficacious incandescent lamps were made with the advancement of significantly improved technologies. In 1906, the General Electric Company patented the method of making tungsten filaments for use in incandescent light bulbs. In 1910, the process to manufacture tungsten was improved by William David Coolidge. In the 1920s, the first frosted light bulbs was produced which was adjustable to power beam bulbs and it was used for cars head lamps and neon lights. Read more: Source