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6 days ago · 2. Commercial Road junction. A wonderful photograph of pre-war Commercial Road, Portsmouth, at its junction with Charlotte Street. A policeman directs traffic. Photo: The News archive. Photo Sales ...
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1 day ago · In 1912, the first electric traffic light was developed by Lester Wire, a policeman in Salt Lake City, Utah. [9] It was installed by the American Traffic Signal Company on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
4 days ago · The development of electric street lighting began in 1875 with the creation of “Electric candles” or “Yablochkov candles” by Pavel Yablochkov. This was followed by the installation of the first incandescent street light in Virginia in 1879.
1 day ago · Order of the White Lion (1937) Signature. Nikola Tesla (/ ˈtɛslə /; [ 2 ] Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July 1856 [ a ] – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American [ 3 ][ 4 ] engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity ...
1 day ago · Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company and computer animation studio that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas. [8] It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm , which Lucas founded, and was created when he began production on the original Star Wars , [ 9 ] now the fourth episode ...
5 days ago · Over 5,000 stars will light up London’s Oxford Street for the Christmas period this year, consisting of 300,000 tiny state-of-the-art LED bulbs, creating unique Christmas lighting. These stars, in addition to lighting up Oxford Street during the Christmas season, also light up London’s West End.
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5 days ago · Review: After a two-year hiatus, the iconic Christmas lights in Auckland’s Franklin Road shone once again to commemorate the first day of December - and I went to see what the fuss was...
