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The Edison Electric Light Station opened as the world's first coal power station at 57 Holborn Viaduct London producing 110 volt DC and was used for street lighting. It ran at a loss and closed in 1886.
Dec 11, 2019 · The first electric lighting order in Manchester indicated the first five streets for energy supply to be around Market Street. The first customer was the Bank of England. Between 1896 and 1900 the area to be supplied increased from half a square mile to fourty-five square miles.
- Commoditization and Fast Followers
- Public Ownership and Accountability
- Design and The Separation of Powers
- Transformation and Lock-In
- As Ever, We’Ve Been Here Before
The first is about the commoditization of technology. Researcher Simon Wardley talks about technologies evolving along a spectrum from an original idea (genesis), through custom-built or bespoke products until the technology ultimately becomes a well-known commodity.¹³ Today a local government organization building it’s own power station and separa...
The debate from the early 20th Century about issues of safety, exploitation, ownership, and the new power dynamics of municipal utilities map pretty well to today’s debates around the ethics and accountability of digital platforms. Take for example the connected sensor networks of the LinkNYC and InLink programs in New York and London. As the campa...
The move towards single digital platforms like GOV.UK bring with them a consistency in design that aims to ensure people don’t need to understand the structure of government to complete a given task. From a utilitarian point of view, this makes sense. People shouldn’t have to understand the internal structure of government to claim welfare, pay tax...
Finally, the story above is an example of why changing existing systems is just harderthan the development of new ‘green field’ projects. The loss of institutional knowledge about how the original system worked and its inherent complexity made it hard to replace. This is precisely the problem that many developed economies face when trying to digiti...
Public electric lighting (and other civic utilities) represented the adoption of new technologies in the civic domain. With them came approaches to adoption, and questions of ownership and accountability. Once entrenched, came those of transformation and lock-in. They changed the work of government and demanded new institutions to govern them. Thes...
Jan 17, 2016 · The Regent’s Park Central Station was constructed by the Vestry of St. Pancras, the first local authority in London to start the transfer from gas street lighting to electric and to provide a supply to private consumers.
Feb 7, 1996 · The beginnings of electric street lighting in the City of London. From the time of the first experimental arc lamps on Holborn Viaduct in 1878 to the first permanent electric street lamps in 1891, the denizens of the City of London were subjected to many forms of lighting in which, at one time, electricity played no part and the Viaduct itself ...
Era of more efficient street lightning starts with William Murdock who, for the first time in 1802, lit the outside of the Soho Foundry in a public presentation with a gas light fueled with coal gas. After that, in 1807, London got its first gas lit street.
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Nov 6, 2017 · A year later Mosley Street in Newcastle was the first in the world to have electric streetlights. Thomas Edison was working on his own light bulbs at the same time. He tried to sue Swan for infringing his patent, but the two men ended up joining forces to form the Swan and Edison Company.
