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  2. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    1805 Philips and Lee's Cotton Mill, Manchester was the first industrial factory to be fully lit by gas. 1809 Humphry Davy publicly demonstrates first electric lamp over 10,000 lumens, at the Royal Society. [5] 1813 National Heat and Light Company formed by Frederick Albert Winsor. 1815 Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp.

  3. Humphry Davy - Wikipedia

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    In 1802, Humphry Davy had what was then the most powerful electrical battery in the world at the Royal Institution. With it, Davy created the first incandescent light by passing electric current through a thin strip of platinum, chosen because the metal had an extremely high melting point. It was neither sufficiently bright nor long lasting ...

  4. Arc lamp - Wikipedia

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    The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, was the first practical electric light. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was widely used starting in the 1870s for street and large building lighting until it was superseded by the incandescent light in the early 20th ...

  5. Electric light - Wikipedia

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    Invented by Humphry Davy around 1805, the carbon arc was the first practical electric light. [33] [34] It was used commercially beginning in the 1870s for large building and street lighting until it was superseded in the early 20th century by the incandescent light. [33] Carbon arc lamps operate at high power and produce high intensity white light.

  6. Electrification - Wikipedia

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    In the years 1831–1832, ... Sir Humphry Davy invented the carbon arc lamp in 1802 upon discovering that ... was the first public room lit by electric light, ...

  7. List of British innovations and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Sir Humphry Davy creates the first incandescent light by passing a current from a battery, at the time the world's most powerful, through a thin strip of platinum. 1804. The world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey is made by Richard Trevithick's steam locomotive. [27] 1807

  8. Davy lamp - Wikipedia

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    The Davy lamp is a safety lamp used in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. [1] It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines , to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp .

  9. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    Russian engineer Pavel Yablochkov invented the electric carbon arc lamp. 1876: Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. 1877: American inventor Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. 1877: German industrialist Werner von Siemens developed a primitive loudspeaker. 1878: First electric street lighting in Paris, France 1878