electric lighting
Wired artificial glow
Electric lighting is illumination produced by electricity rather than fire, oil, or gas.
The term encompasses incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes, LEDs, and other technologies that convert electrical energy into light.
Before electric lighting became standard in the twentieth century, homes and streets relied on candles, oil lamps, and gas fixtures.
- Edison bulbRetro-style incandescent light
- sconceMounted light fixture
- Thomas EdisonProlific American inventor
- incandescent bulbLight from heated filament
- LEDSemiconductor that glows
energy efficient · arc lamp · neon sign · fluorescent tube · glow · soft glow · lumens · flicker · circuit breaker · tungsten · wattage · chandelier · Nikola Tesla · filament · streetlight · halogen lamp · ballast · fixture
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, William Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe
- 1889 Paris ExpositionEiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel, centennial celebration, pavilions
electric lightingcandlelight
Luminescence from burning wick
torchlight · firelight · gaslight · oil lamps · kerosene lamps
electric lightingdarkness
Total absence of light
blackout · power outage · unlit · pitch black · lightlessness