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September 4, 2012 03:35 pm PDT
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Great depressing moments in history: Philippe Lebon and the streetlights of Paris
At his blog, Kafka's Mouse, author P.D. Smith details the history of lighting infrastructure in cities—a story that begins with the dawn of gas lights. London was the first city to get gas-powered street lamps, in 1812. But it was not the first city to hear such an idea proposed. In fact, in an alternate [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NeZS2nsCDqo/great-depressing-moments-in-hi.html
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