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History of Street Lighting in the United States
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The use of street lighting was first recorded in the Arab Empire from the 9th-10th centuries, especially in Cordova, and then in London from 1417 when Henry Barton, the mayor, ordered "lanterns with lights to be hanged out on the winter evenings between Hallowtide and Candlemasse." However it was introduced to the United States by famed inventor Benjamin Franklin, who was the postmaster of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because of this, many regard Philadelphia as the birthplace of street lighting in the United States. The colonial-era streetlights were lit by candles placed inside a glass vessel, which kept the candle from being blown out by wind. Franklin's design was four-sided, with four separate panes of glass, so that if one pane of glass was broken, the lamp did not need to be entirely replaced, and might not even blow out. After the invention of gas light by William Murdoch in 1792, cities in Britain began to light their streets using gas. The United States followed suit shortly afterwards with the introduction of gas lighting to the streets of Baltimore in 1816.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- Sprache Englisch
- Untertitel Street light, Invention, Benjamin Franklin, William Murdoch, Thomas Edison
- Titel History of Street Lighting in the United States
- ISBN 978-613-0-60616-9
- Format Fachbuch
- EAN 9786130606169
- Jahr 2010
- Größe H6mm x B220mm x T150mm
- Gewicht 162g
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 96
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Genre Geschichte
- GTIN 09786130606169
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