October 7th is National LED Light Day!

The New Year’s Eve Ball In Times Square Is Lit By 32,256 LED Bulbs

By SouthFloridaReporter.com

 Oct 7, 2024

National LED Light Day, held on October 7, was first recognized by Bridgelux, which founded the day in 2016. The occasion aimed to celebrate the great discovery and creation of LED lights, and how they are used in everyday life.

However, over time, the day also began to highlight the numerous advantages LED lights can have on the environment — which is now facing a tragic energy crisis. Want to contribute to the positive future of Mother Earth? Celebrate the day with great fervor and spread awareness about all the advantages of LED lights.

• 1927 – The first LED light was created by Russian inventor Oleg Losev in 1927, but nothing was done about the research until much later.
• 1939 – Zoltan Bay and Gyorgy Szigeti created the first-ever type of LED and patented the device.
• 1962 – General Electric scientist Nick Holonyak Jr., invents LED technology.
• 1968 – Hewlett Packard began to use LEDs in calculators. Furthermore, more experiments were made with LED colors,
• 1971 – Jacques Pankove creates blue LEDs
• 1987 – LEDs are used in vehicle brake lights, signal lights, and traffic lights.
• 2006 – A white LED was created by Shuji Nakamura. This discovery led him to win a Millennium Technology Prize.
• 2012 – 49 million LED bulbs were installed across America, accounting
  for energy savings of about $675 million
• 2014 – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of blue light-emitting diodes.
• 2016 – Bridgelux founded National LED Light Day in May of 2016
• 2019 – Homes all over the world begin switched to LED lights
•  LED (Light-Emitting Diode). LEDs are celebrated for their efficiency, lasting up to 50,000 hours, and their minimal environmental impact, using 90% less energy than traditional light sources​.
• LED lighting is available with solar charging capacity for a variety of uses.
• LED grow lights for plants come in several different designs to meet your plant-growing needs.
• Depending on the manufacturer, LED bulbs can last between 35,000 to 50,000 hours. Compare that to an incandescent bulb at up to 2,000 hours.
• LEDs don’t attract bugs.
• At midnight Eastern Standard Time, the world-famous ball drops down in Time Square. Comprised of thousands of glittering crystals, the ball also uses LED lights. There are around 32,256 LED lights illuminating the ball.
• When you think of Paris, France certain landmarks come to mind. The Louvre is one, along with the Eiffel Tower. Illuminating the Eiffel Tower at night are 5 billion tiny LED lights, making it an impressive lighting design.
• If an LED bulb is installed in a newborn baby’s room today, then that bulb won’t need to be changed for over 20 years, meaning that one bulb will last the child until he or she goes off to college.