December 4th, 1916 Electric lighting was installed in the White House in 1891 during President Benjamin Harrison’s administration. Few people at the time had enough faith in electric lighting to use it exclusively after all
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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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The Empire State Building first turned on its lights on May 1, 1931. It was designed by architect William F. Lamb and
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The first method of film projection using artificial light was developed by the Lumière brothers in 1895. They developed a machine called
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Thomas Edison patented his first commercially practical light bulb on January 27, 1880.
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The first night baseball game under lights was played on May 24, 1935, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. The game was
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