The Evolution of Artificial Lighting | 40,000 Years (38,000 BC - 2100)

40,000 years ago, the only way to see in the dark was to pour animal fat into a stone bowl and hope the moss wick held — that was the state-of-the-art. This video tracks every invention humans used to fight darkness, from prehistoric fat lamps and Egyptian alabaster to Edison's bulb, blue LED Nobel Prize, and a future where light exists only in your mind. Stay until 2100 — the last entry has no light switch at all. #shorts #datavisualization #evolution #lightinghistory #ledhistory #edisonbulb #scienceevolution