1841 Arc-lighting used as experimental public lighting in Paris 1853 Ignacy Lukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp 1856 glassblower Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a tube . 1867 A. E. Becquerel demonstrates the first fluorescent lamp 1875 Henry Woodward patents an electric light bulb. 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle