Editing Timeline of lighting technology (section)

== Antiquity ==
* 125,000 BC Widespread [[control of fire by early humans]].<ref name="beyondveg">{{cite web|url=http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview2c.shtml|title=First Control of Fire by Human Beings—How Early?|access-date=2007-11-12}}</ref>
* 17,500 BC oldest documented lamp, utilizing animal fat as fuel<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=de Beaune |first1=Sophie A. |last2=White |first2=Randall |date=1993 |title=Ice Age Lamps |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24941409 |journal=Scientific American |volume=268 |issue=3 |pages=108–113 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0393-108 |jstor=24941409 |bibcode=1993SciAm.266c.108D |issn=0036-8733|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* {{c.|4500 BC}} [[oil lamp]]s
* c. 3000 BC [[candle]]s are invented.
* 577 CE Use of [[match]]es in China.<ref name="Needham">{{cite book|last=Needham|first=Joseph|title=Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology; Part 1, Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJ9nayZZ2oEC&pg=PA703|date=1 January 1962|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-05802-5|pages=70–71|quote=sulphur matches were certainly sold in the markets of Hangchow when Marco Polo was there|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102072357/http://books.google.com/books?id=oJ9nayZZ2oEC&pg=PA703|archive-date=2 January 2014}}</ref>