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The lamp was invented at least as early as 70,000 bce. Originally it consisted of a hollowed-out rock filled with moss or some other absorbent material that was soaked with animal fat and ignited. In the Mediterranean area and the Middle East, the earliest lamp had a shell shape.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 2, 2019 · The first lamp was invented around 70,000 BC. A hollow rock, shell or other natural found object was filled with moss or similar material that was soaked with animal fat and ignited. Humans began imitating the natural shapes with manmade pottery, alabaster, and metal lamps.
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Nov 22, 2013 · In the 19th century, two Germans -- glassblower Heinrich Geissler and physician Julius Plücker -- discovered that they could produce light by removing almost all of the air from a long glass tube and passing an electrical current through it, an invention that became known as the Geissler tube.
The Cragside type lamp became the first light bulb to be made in large numbers in 1881, when Swan established the world's first light bulb factory at Benwell in Newcastle.
Thomas Edison is credited with inventing a whole host of valuable inventions but the real story behind them often reveals a different pattern of events. It was actually British inventor Sir Humphry...
Explore the history of the light bulb and discover who really invented it with BBC Science Focus Magazine.
Jul 18, 2023 · Joseph Swan (1828-1914) invented an early incandescent light bulb. His house in Gateshead in England was the first in the world to have working light bulbs installed. Picryl. Beyond Edison, the Englishman Joseph Swan may be the inventor with the greatest claim to inventing a practical light bulb.
