Radiant Rewind - Page 2

On the evening of August 30, 1983 the Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew thundered into the night sky as it left

Billed as "One Hot Night," the 1992 NASCAR All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway was the first superspeedway race run at night,

Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass. His cathode

January 1780 The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aime Argand and was extremely unique at the time. His wick

The first lamp to use halogen gas (chlorine) was patented in 1882, but the first commercial halogen lamp that used iodine as

The Lite-Brite toy is one of the all-time most popular toys and was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in

Back in the 1890’s locomotives began adopting electric headlights but they were met with a great deal of debate about whether or

December 4th, 1916 Electric lighting was installed in the White House in 1891 during President Benjamin Harrison’s administration. Few people at the

The first lighthouse to use electric light was the Statue of Liberty in New York City, which was illuminated by electric lamps