Exploring the past and present of car lights: incandescent, xenon, LED lights

Do you know the 100-year history of car headlights? The car has been born for more than a hundred years, but also the era of rapid advancement of human science and technology. With the advent of the electrical age, the electrical components on the car have also undergone tremendous changes, the most representative of which is the development and evolution of the vehicle headlights.

From the initial steam lamps to electric lights, from halogens to LEDs, to the latest laser headlights, from the very beginning for pure lighting, to night vision, decoration, and even incorporating brand features and other elements, vehicle headlights It has become one of the most characteristic parts on the vehicle. Today, I will talk to you about the development of car headlights.

Exploring the past and present of car lights: incandescent, xenon, LED lights

Early cars were without headlights.

Whether it was the world's first wagon-type three-wheeled car developed by Bentz in 1885, or the first four-wheeled car invented by German Gedley Daimler in the same year, the first consideration for early car inventors was How to get the car to move quickly and steadily, not lighting, so they didn't install a decent car light on the car.

Exploring the past and present of car lights: incandescent, xenon, LED lights

The world's first car, "Benz One," from the picture, is not equipped with lights.

The lights that really spread to the car were transplanted from the carriage, the most mainstream lighting tool before the invention of the electric light - kerosene lamp! It is also from the kerosene lamp that the car headlights began to escalate along with the wave of the electrical revolution.

From the kerosene lamp, the car headlights have roughly experienced acetylene lamps, incandescent/halogen lamps, xenon lamps, LED lamps and the most advanced laser headlamps in the past six eras.

Exploring the past and present of car lights: incandescent, xenon, LED lights

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