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A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platfo
Detail of a street light base in Paris
A lamplighter cleaning a lantern during the Great War
William Murdoch's house in Redruth, UK, the first domestic house in the world to be lit by gas
Streetlights from an 1871 catalog
Lamplighter
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A lamplighter or gaslighter is a person employed to light and maintain street lights. These included candles, oil lamps, and gas lighting.
Street light
…the murky, winding streets of medieval towns. Before incandescent lamps, candle lighting was employed in cities. The earliest lamps required that a lamplighter tour the town at dusk, lighting each of the lamps. According to some sources, illumination was ordered in London in 1417 by Sir Henry Barton, Mayor of…
The lamplighter in Brest, Belarus (15 October 2011).
Lamplighter in Wrocław's Ostrów Tumski ("Cathedral Island") district, Poland, November 2005.
Lithograph published in The World in Miniature (London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1821–1825)