Billed as "One Hot Night," the 1992 NASCAR All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway was the first superspeedway race run at night, thanks to a new $1.7 million lighting system installed at the 1.5-mile track.
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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
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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
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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
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The first lamp to use halogen gas (chlorine) was patented in 1882, but the first commercial halogen lamp that used iodine as
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The Lite-Brite toy is one of the all-time most popular toys and was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in
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Back in the 1890’s locomotives began adopting electric headlights but they were met with a great deal of debate about whether or
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Electric lighting was installed in the White House in 1891 during President Benjamin Harrison’s administration. Few people at the time had enough
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The first lighting used on an airport was during the latter part of the 1920’s; in the 1930s, approach lighting came into
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The first lighthouse to use electric light was the Statue of Liberty in New York City, which was illuminated by electric lamps
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