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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

In 2011, ORBITEC (Orbital Technologies Corporation) developed the first light-emitting diode (LED) system for use as running lights on spacecraft. Currently, Cygnus spacecraft, which are uncrewed vessels designed

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

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

Electric lighting was installed in the White House in 1891 during President Benjamin Harrison’s administration. Few people at the time had enough

The first lighting used on an airport was during the latter part of the 1920’s; in the 1930s, approach lighting came into