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  2. History of street lighting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lamppost with two street lights using high pressure sodium vapor lamp (Left) and mercury vapor lamp (Right) in Elko, Nevada (2015) See also: Sodium-vapor lamp Low-pressure sodium vapor street lights produce a strong monochromatic yellow light, which also reveals more detail to the human eye, even at low levels of luminance.

  3. Urban Light - Wikipedia

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    Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s.

  4. Street lighting in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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    The lamp was immediately fabricated and placed into widespread use in 1912. [39] [40] In December 1922, [41] the CFA undertook an initiative to both improve the street lighting in certain areas of the District of Columbia as well as design an aesthetically pleasing and uniform lamppost. [42]

  5. Lamplighter - Wikipedia

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    A gas lamp is located at N. Holliday Street and E. Baltimore Street as a monument to the first gas lamp in America, erected at that location. [ 9 ] However, gas lighting of streets has not disappeared completely from some cities, and the few municipalities that retained gas lighting now find that it provides a pleasing nostalgic effect.

  6. David Melville (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    David Melville (March 21, 1773 - September 3, 1856) was an American inventor, credited with the first gas street lighting in America, and the first American patent for gas lighting. Melville was born in Newport, Rhode Island to David and Mary (West) Melville. He was apparently able to light both his house and his street with gas by 1805-1806 ...

  7. "Untitled" (America) - Wikipedia

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    "Untitled" (America) is an artwork by Felix Gonzalez-Torres that is currently in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The work consists of twelve individual parts/light strings, each part has 42 light bulbs. [1] The artist purposefully chose not to specify how the work should be installed. [2]

  8. Gas mantle - Wikipedia

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    Gas mantle in a street lamp (cold) Mantles in their unused flat-packed form. To produce a mantle, cotton is woven or knit into a net bag, impregnated with soluble nitrates of the chosen metals, and then transported to its destination. The user installs the mantle and then burns it to remove the cotton bag and convert the metal nitrates to ...

  9. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    A sole, token gas lamp is located at N. Holliday Street and E. Baltimore Street as a monument to the first gas lamp in America, erected at that location. However, gas lighting of streets has not disappeared completely from some cities, and the few municipalities that retained gas lighting now find that it provides a pleasing nostalgic effect.

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