Early lighting -- Primitive lights -- Firelight -- Simple oil lamps -- Candles -- Rushlights -- Improved candles -- Candle accessories -- Advanced oil lamps -- The Argand burner -- The paraffin lamp -- The naphtha flare -- The safety lamp -- Living with oil lamps -- Gas flames -- Early experiments -- Practical gas lighting -- Reactions to gas lighting -- Limelight -- The first electric lighting -- A new kind of light -- New possibilities -- Early demonstrations of arc lighting -- Early demonstrations of incandescent lighting -- The electric arc -- The first practical arc lights -- Arc lamp mechanisms -- The adoption of arc lighting -- Widespread use--and decline -- Inventors of the filament lamp -- Joseph Swan -- Thomas Edison -- Other early lamp makers -- Commercial development of the filament lamp -- Development in Britain -- Development in America -- Development in Europe -- Early discharge lamps -- Early observations -- The first discharge lamps -- The Nernst lamp -- Rivals to electricity -- The gas mantle -- A better gaslight -- Memories of gaslight -- Miscellaneous lamps -- Acetylene -- Petrol gas -- Oil vapour lamps -- Modern lighting -- Metal filament lamps -- The limits of the carbon lamp -- Metal filaments -- Drawn tungsten -- The lamp industry -- Further improvements in filament lamps -- Halogen lamps -- Reflective coatings -- Lighting the home -- The early promotion of electric light for the home -- Advertising the light -- Reactions to electric light -- Continuing research.
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