Manet's painting of the Bar at the Folies Bergère is one of the first pictures to portray electric light. One of J-K Huysman's criticisms of the painting was that the lights were not brilliant enough.
1809 Humphry Davy invented the first electric light.
1854 Henricg Globel, a German watchmaker, invented the first true lightbulb.
1879 Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours. Edison placed his filament in an oxygenless bulb.
1880 Edison continued to improve his lightbulb until it lasted for over a thousand hours.
