The history of candles is very long, say the archaeologists, the candles first time 5000 years ago (3000 BC) in Egypt and Crete. The first candles from animals (sheep and cattle) fat. The torch was a version specifically for lighting candles uses bigger places, rockets were usually used outdoors because smoke released. The first is that the fuse has been introduced in the history of Roman candles, which had used in places of worship and night.What travel developments in the history of candles in the age groups?

The introduction of beeswax candles in the history of this growth was in the Middle Ages was very expensive and only the rich could afford the new benefit that resulted was that the beeswax candle burned much cleaner than tallow candle. These new candles of the Church, which quickly adopted and still used the first settlers in America found it by chance that the berries cooked in a sort of gray-green wax, which is similar to beeswax, and the smell does not always today.When preferred to follow when it burns.

This new opportunity of not having the effect everyone hoped that was because the process is very long and expensive, so it remains only as a step in the history of candles.In 18th Century, the brick industry has proposed a different solution for responsible spermaceti candle wax that was used is not free to do any unpleasant odor during combustion. The history of candles was seriously injured in 19 Jahrhundert, als die erste Maschine, die Kerzen erzeugten erschien automatisch im Jahre 1850 wurde entdeckt Paraffin verändert, ist es ein Produkt erhalten, die aus Erdöl residues.

Paraffin Kerzen ohne unangenehmen Geruch verbrannten und aufgrund der Tatsache, Auch waren sie cheep, beseitigt sie to similar competition. The only problems with the wax, melting point, which was more difficult to achieve, but are easily shared with all the difficulties of stearic acid, introduced as paraffin candles on the market and occupies a leading position in the history of the end candles.The candle? Edison was the one who struck his practical side, and ended the long history of candles in 1879 discovered the light bulb and as a result of candles soon disappeared as a mass industry.

Currently, candles are used as a decorative items or as part of aromatherapy, but their main role is in Christian churches, where candles are not currently a source of light, but as a spiritual object.