Table 2.
Timeline of the development of Anthropogenic Light sources on Earth.
| Year | Artificial lighting technology | Inverter/Country | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1780 | Argand lamp | Aime Argand/Geneva | (102) |
| 1792 | Gas lighting | William Murdoch/England | (103) |
| 1800-1809 | Arc Lamp | Humphry Davy/England | (104) |
| 1856 | Geissler Tube | Heinrich Geissler/Saxe-Meiningen | (105) |
| 1867 | Fluorescence lamp | A. E. Becquerel/Paris | (106) |
| 1875 | Incandescent light bulb | Henry Woodward/Canada | (107) |
| 1880 | Long lasting filament | Thomas Edison/USA | (108) |
| 1894 | Gas discharge lamp | D. McFarlan Moore/USA | (109) |
| 1901 | Mercury-vapor lamp | Peter Cooper Hewitt/USA | (110) |
| 1904 | Tungsten filament | Alexander Just and Franjo Hanaman/Hungry | (111) |
| 1910 | Neon lighting | Georges Claude/France | (112) |
| 1913 | Inert gas in bulb | Irving Langmuir/USA | (113) |
| 1920 | Sodium vapor lamp | Arthur H. Compton/USA | (114) |
| 1927 | Light-emitting diode | Oleg Losev/Russia | (115) |
| 1953 | Halogen light bulb | Elmer Fridrich/USA | (116) |
| 1962 | Red light-emitting diode | Nick Holonyak Jr./USA | (117) |
| 1963 | High-pressure sodium vapor lamp | Kurt Schmidt/USA | (118) |
| 1987 | Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) | Ching W. Tang and Steven Van Slyke/USA | (119) |
| 1995 | Blue LED | Shuji Nakamura/Japan | (120) |
| 2008 | LED lighting system with helical fiber filament | G. R. Hulse/USA | (121) |
| 2019 | LED filament chips | T. Jiang/Japan | (122) |