History

History Of Glowsticks

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

The glowstick was invented over 40 years ago by Edwin Chandross, a chemist at Bell Labs. Glowsticks use chemical energy to product light. At the time it was quite a remarkable achievement because either electrical mains or battery were the energy sources for most light producing devices.
Many scientists took Chandross’ work and refined the process [...]