Argand lamp introduced
The Met describes the Argand oil lamp as introduced in 1784, a major change in domestic artificial lighting.
06 / history
Selected History
A selected evidence trail, not a total history of lighting. Milestones are included because this release has inspectable institutional sources for them.
A British Argand lamp survives
The Met documents a British Argand lamp made in England with Sheffield plate, earthenware and glass.
Sinumbra reframes the shadow problem
The Met’s sinumbra object record describes a design intended to let light fall on the surface below with less obstruction from the lamp structure.
A public incandescent-system demonstration
Smithsonian and NPS sources document the Menlo Park public demonstration of Edison’s practical incandescent lighting system in late 1879; NPS also notes that electric lighting had earlier inventors and forms.
Wagenfeld table lamp at the Bauhaus
The V&A describes Wilhelm Wagenfeld’s table lamp as a functional yet expressive modernist object using a translucent glass globe.
Henningsen’s PH lamp
The V&A highlights Poul Henningsen’s tiered opalescent-glass shade system as a glare-conscious lighting design.
Christian Dell Type K
The V&A documents an adjustable desk lamp using lacquered steel, nickel-plated brass, cast iron and ebonite.
Spring balance becomes a lamp language
The V&A traces George Carwardine’s spring-based mechanism to 1932 and the Anglepoise Model 1227 to 1935.
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