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  1. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk › electric-lighting-homeElectrifying: The story of lighting our homes | Science Museum

    Jan 28, 2020 · By the 1930s new homes in urban areas of Britain were being lit by electricity. It took time for the National Grid to roll out electricity to most of the country, but the number of homes wired up increased from 6% in 1919 to two thirds by the end of the 1930s.

  2. britishheritage.org › en › joseph-swanJoseph Swan - The Lightbulb - British Heritage

    The incandescent light bulb, which Swan independently developed around the same time as Thomas Alva Edison in the United States, was a transformative innovation. With his bulb, Swan ushered in a new era of electric illumination, replacing the unreliable and hazardous gas lighting of the time.

  3. somethingcurated.com › 2017/08/08 › 9-british9 British Artists & Designers Experimenting With Light

    Aug 8, 2017 · Haroon Mirza’s works test the interplay and friction between sound and light waves and electric current. He devises kinetic sculptures, performances and immersive installations, such as The National Apavillion of Then and Now (2011) – an anechoic chamber with a circle of light that grows brighter in response to increasing noise.

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  4. www.radiomuseum.co.uk › earlyradioThe Story of Radio, Part 1 - Radio Museum

    So it was then in the 1870s that Joseph Swan in England and Thomas Alva Edison in the USA turned their minds, independently to making an electric lamp for the masses. Swan may have been first to glimpse the solution in 1878 when he came up with the idea of a vacuum lamp.

  5. www.thevictorianemporium.com › publicationsHistory of Lighting - The Victorian Emporium

    May 30, 2011 · The use of electricity for the purpose of lighting truly began with a British engineer named Frederick Hale Holmes, who in 1846 patented an electric arc lamp and with Michael Faraday pioneered the electrical illumination of lighthouses in the 1850s and 60s.

  6. www.english-heritage.org.uk › visit › inspire-meThe illuminating history of lighting | English Heritage

    Nov 6, 2017 · The first electric lights were developed in the late 1870s by different people across the world. In Britain, Joseph Swan led the charge. He installed his lights at Cragside House in Northumberland in 1878.

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  8. lucyworsley.com › a-quick-history-of-domestic-lightingA quick history of domestic lighting | Lucy Worsley

    The advent of Colza oil (rapeseed) lamps in the 1760’s, the development of mineral oil (paraffin) for lighting in the 1840’s, the use of acetylene for lighting in the same decade, the Argand lamp etc.etc.