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Two people are missing and four are in critical condition after dozens were injured in a powerful explosion in a building in central Paris.. The explosion at around 4:55pm local time yesterday at ...
Watch live as emergency services respond to the scene of an explosion in Paris on Wednesday, 21 June. Local French media reported that the blast, on rue Saint-Jacques in the fifth arrondissement ...
A strong explosion rocked a building in Paris' Left Bank on Wednesday, injuring at least 24 people, igniting a fire that sent smoke soaring over the French capital's monuments and prompting an ...
Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.. Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.
The largest gas lighting network in the world is that of Berlin, Germany. With about 37,000 lamps (2014), [ 10 ] it holds more than half of all working gas street lamps in the world. In central London around 1500 gas lamps still operate, lighting the Royal Parks , the exterior of Buckingham Palace and almost the entire Covent Garden area.
Gas lighting was one of the most debated technologies of the first industrial revolution. In Paris, as early as 1823, controversy forced the government to devise safety standards. [19] The residues produced from distilled coal were often either drained into rivers or stored in basins which polluted (and still pollute) the soil.
Police fired tear gas at protestors in Paris as thousands marched against president Emmanuel Macron's policy to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Footage shows clashes between protesters and ...
1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris. 1879 (About Christmas time) Col. R. E. Crompton illuminated his home in Porchester Gardens, using a primary battery of Grove Cells, then a generator which was better. He gave special parties and illuminated his drawing ...