Radiant Rewind

Tribute in Light was conceived by artists Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda. This powerful tribute, which consists of 88 searchlights arranged in two vertical beams, serves

A Monday night dinner, held just before Thanksgiving in 1936 in Washington DC to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Patent

Super Bowl XLIX made history as the first NFL event exclusively illuminated by LED lighting. That game was held at the 64,400 seat University of Phoenix

The Egyptian-themed Las Vegas mega hotel and casino located on the south end of the famous Las Vegas strip switched on its massive light beams

The US Patent Office grants the historic patent for Edison’s electric incandescent lamp

In his first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb, Thomas Alva Edison lit up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

This catapulted America, and

At midnight on December 31, 1999, one of the World’s most famous attractions debuted a new lighting feature that would draw even more attention to

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, both by area and population... but it could be one of the greenest and certainly one

In June of 2009, the state legislature in Maine took a big step in ensuring that consumers in the state had a quick, easy and

September 2004 For almost as long as people have driven automobiles, they have been driving them at night. In order to do that, automakers had

Back in the early 1990’s, there was a movement taking place that was shining a light on global warming, pollution reduction, and environmental activism.

The US

In 1903, Niels Ryberg Finsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his invention of light therapy for skin tuberculosis (lupus vulgaris). His breakthrough research

It’s commonly accepted that Canada has a love affair with ice hockey. From pond hockey rinks to large indoor NHL arenas, Canadians flock to play

The First Presbyterian Church of Roselle, NJ, was selected by Thomas Edison in 1882 to be the first church to install and test his incandescent

In 1912, after years of experimentation with gases and tubes, lighting inventor and neon pioneer Georges Claude discovered the perfect commercial application for his neon

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

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

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 tube was covered

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 consisted of a

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

The Lite-Brite toy is one of the all-time most popular toys and was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2022. It was

Back in the 1890’s locomotives began adopting electric headlights but they were met with a great deal of debate about whether or not the light

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

The first lighthouse to use electric light was the Statue of Liberty in New York City, which was illuminated by electric lamps on December 31,

The Empire State Building first turned on its lights on May 1, 1931. It was designed by architect William F. Lamb and built by the

The first method of film projection using artificial light was developed by the Lumière brothers in 1895. They developed a machine called the cinématograph, which

Thomas Edison patented his first commercially practical light bulb on January 27, 1880.

The first night baseball game under lights was played on May 24, 1935, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. The game was between the Cincinnati