The era of using oils (such as olive, sesame, nut fish, whale,
and beeswax) for lighting was transformed into gas lighting
at the end of 18th century. Initially streets used to get light
from the hanging of door lamps facing the street. The idea
of public street lighting was initiated after the discovery of
flammable gas fromcoal byWilliamMurdoch, who first used
it to light his house in 1792. This was further strengthened
by Frederick Albert Winsor, who got first patent in coal gas
lighting in 1804 [17]. In 1799, a French engineer and chemist,
Philippe Lebon patented his “thermolamp” which burned a
distilled gas from wood [18]. This was the cornerstone for
technological development of gasification and application of
its products for lighting.This technology was later expanded
to elsewhere to theWestminster Bridge (London) in 1813 and
the city of Baltimore, MD, in the USA in 1816. It was further
spread into major industries for lighting so that productivity
could be stretched into the night shift [3].