Indoor lighting will have to wait for another post. For now we’ll observe only that arc lights were far too bright for indoor use, and most people in 1900 still used gas lighting at home.

OGDENSBURG, April 30.-Joseph Good- en was instantly killed by an electric shock to-day while he was attempting to light a cigar from an arc lamp in the street.

Arc lighting debuted in two places in France in 1875: at the La Chapelle railway station, believed to be the first street-level arc lamp use, and at the Mill of Heilmann, Ducommun, and Steinlein.

But arc lighting was far too brilliant to be used indoors, and the search for a practical, modest electric light for homes and businesses occupied many experimenters throughout Europe, ...

But he also felt that arc lighting was far too bright and far too hot to be used indoors. What the world needed, Edison thought, was a cheap, reliable, long-lasting incandescent electric light bulb.