Timeline of Electricity. 1570. William Gilbert (1540-1603) demonstrates attractive and repulsive force from rubbing many substances together (electrostatic charge); calls them "electrics," and ...

The lava lamp was invented by Edward Craven Walker whose other claim to fame was making underwater nudist films. Ryan R. Reed At a certain moment in the late 1960s, the lava lamp came to symbolize ...

650 lamps, dating back to the 5th century BC, are on display at a church in Ho Chi Minh City. A collection of ancient Vietnamese lamps, with the theme "Light for all people", is on display at the ...

IN the Revue Scientifique of October 28, M. R. Boutville gives an interesting account of the public lighting of Paris from the earliest times until the end of the nineteenth century. He points out ...

Students light earthen oil lamps on rangoli, a decorative design, on the occasion of the Diwali, a Hindu festival of lights in Guwahati. Rangoli is an Indian art form to bring good luck ...

Three Roman lamps found on the site of the cemetery of Djemal, south of Sousse in Tunisia in North Africa with a written account of their discovery in the 1890s.