This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is hosting Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting, a show looking at the history of lighting design around the world over the past century. It is the ...

Experts discuss how history influences future of lighting design. The National Lighting Bureau (NLB), based in Brentwood, Tenn., recently held a virtual discussion titled “A History of Lighting,” as ...

Every year for Homecoming, the University of Arizona welcomes alumni back to campus to partake in their fair share of traditions and celebrations. One annual Homecoming tradition at the UA is the ...

For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You had to get a cow, raise the cow, feed the cow, kill the cow, ...

Light is one of our most important energy needs. Historically -- before the advent of electric lighting -- the need for illumination governed architecture. Buildings were designed to facilitate ...

Thomas Edison at the lightbulb’s golden jubilee anniversary. The story of humans trying to use light and heat to their benefit goes back to prehistoric times. The earliest use of fire for these ...

In this show: How we got from candles made out of cow fat to as much light as we want. The history of light is the history of economic growth —... Episode 534: The History Of Light Note: This episode ...

On a brisk February morning, a small crew of GE Lighting retirees carefully wrapped up antique lightbulbs and old lamps in an otherwise quiet building at Nela Park. Flitting from room to room, David ...

LED lighting is seemingly everywhere now, from schools and offices to parking lots and transportation centers. It's hard to believe that it was a fledgling technology with very little market ...

One of LA’s smallest and most secret museums has reopened its doors, and on the third Friday of every month, tours at the Museum of Street Lighting will showcase some of the city’s oldest, quirkiest, ...

Here is the history of light, according to physics. Beyond what we can touch, taste, smell, and hear, we experience the universe through light. But how did we come to discover light, and how did we ...

For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You had to... The history of light (classic) For thousands of years ...