IEEE - Humphry Davy created the first electric light in 1802 using a battery he invented. He connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light.
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The carbon arc light, which consists of an electric arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, was the first practical electric light. :
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