Timeline of lighting technology circa 3000 BC Candles are invented. ??? BC oil lamps 1840 first kerosene lamps (oil lamps that burn fuel from petroleum) 1853 Ignacy Lukasiewicz[?] invents petrol lamp[?] 1792 William Murdoch lights his house and office by means of gas. c. 1802 Humphry Davy demonstrates arc-lighting. 1815 Humphry Davy invents the miner's safety lamp. 1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee. 1841 Arc-lighting used as experimental public lighting in Paris 1867 A. E. Becquerel[?] demostrates the first fluorescent lamp 1875 Henry Woodward patents the electric light bulb. 1876 Paul Jablochkoff[?] invents the Jablochkoff candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris. 1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Wilson Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. c. 1885 Incandescent Mantle invented, revolutionises Gas lighting[?]. c. 1893 Nikola Tesla uses cordless low pressure gas discharge lamps, powered by a high frequency electric field, to light his laboratory. 1903 Peter Cooper Hewitt[?] demonstrates the mercury-vapour lamp[?]. 1911 Georges Claude[?] develops the neon lamp[?]. 1962 Nick Holonyak[?] Jr. developed the first practical visible-spectrum LED