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The use of street lighting was first recorded in London in 1417
when Sir Henry Barton, the mayor, ordered lanterns with lights to
be hanged out on the winter evenings between Hallowtide and
Candlemasse. However it was introduced to the United States by
famed inventor Benjamin Franklin, who was the postmaster of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Because of this, Philadelphia is
regarded by many as the birthplace of street lighting in the United
States.
The colonial-era streetlights were lit by candles shining inside
their boxes. After the invention of gas light by William Murdoch in
1792, cities in Britain began to light their streets using gas and
the United States followed suit shortly afterwards with the
introduction of gas lighting to the streets of Baltimore in 1816.
Throughout the nineteenth century, the use of gas lighting
increased. After Edison pioneered electric use, light bulbs were
developed for the streetlights as well. The first city to use
electric street lights was Attalla, Alabama (1882).
By the beginning of the 20th century, the number of candle-lit
streetlights were dwindling as developers were searching for safer
and more effective ways to illuminate their streets. The
fluorescent and incandescent lights became very popular during the
1930s and 1940s, when automobile travel began to flourish. A street
with lights was referred to as a white way during the early 20th
century.
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