Mateo Sanchez - The Light Bulb

 The article discussed a lot of major industrial era inventions but the one I have decided to discuss today is the lightbulb. Invented in 1879 the lightbulb developed quickly and became commonplace throughout the urban landscape changing even middle and lower class lives. Three years later the next major development aided lightbulbs in its expansion into the countryside and more rural areas. This was the combination of the AC system by Nikola Tesla and the creation of the first commercial power plants. 

Since its invention the majority of concrete technological improvements to the lightbulb technology have just come down to efficiency and brightness. As well as lightbulbs continuing to get smaller and smaller.

The surface level effect of the lightbulb is obvious to anyone living in 21st century America. But it takes having experienced life without the lightbulb in order to truly understand the effects of its invention. Because not only did it have benefits like making nighttime travel much more viable and really creating American nightlife. It also greatly increased the workday and greatly reduced as well the amount of sleep the average American received forever changing that aspect of our lives. In addition to this lighting uses huge amounts of electricity and while allowing for nighttime travel and more of a nightlife it also creates huge amounts of light pollution and regular pollution not to mention littering the American landscape with powerlines.

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