Green Light Traditional Cache
ruzzelz: Apologies to those seeking this cache but it appears the entire cache location will become part of the Kingsford Smith Drive as part of the road improvement project. As a cyclist I support the future inclusion of a bike and walkway along the river front. However it is sad to see the loss of the park and trees at this location. [:(]
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On 10 December 1868, the first traffic lights were installed outside the British Houses of Parliament in London, by the railway engineer J.P. Knight. They resembled railway signals of the time, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. The gas lantern was turned with a lever at its base so that the appropriate light faced traffic. Unfortunately, it exploded on 2 January 1869, injuring the policeman who was operating it.
On Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Germany, it is widely claimed, that the world's first electric street lights were installed there in 1882. What is not refuted is that Europe's first traffic lights were erected there in 1924 in an attempt to control the sheer volume of traffic passing through. These lights were mounted on a five-sided 8.5 metre high tower, at the top of which a policeman sat in a small cabin and switched the lights manually, though they were automated after a few years (a replica of this tower was erected in the late 1990s close to its original location).
The modern electric traffic light is an American invention, on 5 August 1914, the American Traffic Signal Company installed a traffic signal system on the corner of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Based on the design of James Hoge, it had two colors, red and green, and a buzzer to provide a warning for color changes. The first four-way, three-color traffic light was created by police officer William Potts in Detroit in 1920.
However, this light serves a somewhat different purpose.
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