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Street of lights
Posted By lightfixture 2009 days ago on Business
Street of lights have a long history,The first street to be lit by an incandescent Street of lights was Mosley Street, in Newcastle upon Tyne. The street was lit for one night by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879.Consequently, Newcastle has the first city street in the world to be lit by electric lighting.The first city in the United States to successfully demonstrate electric lighting was Cleveland, Ohio with 12 electric lights around the Public Square road system on 29 April 1879.Wabash, Indiana lit 4 Brush arc lamps with 3,000 candlepower each, suspended over their courthouse on 2 February 1880, making the town square "as light as midday".
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