I think they have always done the same thing- namely provide lighting for the streets thereby making it easier for night travelers to find their way , avoid collisions with other travelers and hazardous conditions that may exist in streets. Lights also help prevent street crime and make it easier to apprehend street criminals. Lamp posts can serve as a place to tie a horse or lean against or attach signs to.
sodium arc lamps.
Cincinnati Street Gas Lamps was created in 1843.
In case people were driving with street lamps, they can be able to see you when you are in the light and have a good chance of being seen. It might also help when you cross a street with street lamps.
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You can purchase street lamps at the following sites I found for you to look at. www.streetlamps.com/ , www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4325217.htm
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Filling lamps
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1. Early lamps were used by Greek and Roman civilizations2. The first modern street lamps to use kerosene were introduced in Lviv in what was then the Austrian Empire in 1853.
I know street lamps are one. we have them in ABQ
Turn off street lamps when it is light
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