Glimpse of Global Green Power

Abstract

Electricity consumption is a yardstick of a nation’s progress. Light is a part of life from time immemorial. Starting from fire, earthen lamp, metallic lamp, candle stick, lantern, hurricane, gas light lit by carbide we are now having compact fluorescent lamp. The generation of electricity became prime important. Concept of electricity was realized through the works of scientists like Michael Faraday, Dalton, Heinrich Grisolve, William Crooks, and J J Thomson etc. Finally on 21st October 1879 a filament made from a length of carbonized sewing thread set in an evacuated glass bulb produced a continuous glow for over forty hours by Thomas Alva Edison and three years later the city of New York wondered as Edison switched on the first successful electric light system in the world.