This document provides a brief history of lighting technology, starting with the earliest use of fire over 400,000 years ago. Key developments include the invention of the incandescent light bulb in 1874 and the discovery of electroluminescence in the 1930s and 1950s, leading to the creation of LED lights in the 1960s using materials like gallium arsenide phosphide and gallium phosphide. Advances continued with the development of indium gallium nitride LEDs in the 1990s and improvements in efficiency and size down to the nanoscale.