Street light
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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
Link-boy
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A link-boy was a boy who carried a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night. Linkboys were common in London in the days before the introduction of gas lighting in the early to mid 19th
Street light
…living in what it is now rather unfashionable to call the Dark Ages but which were, from the point of view of street lighting, exactly that." So-called "link boys" escorted people from one place to another through the murky, winding streets of medieval towns. Before incandescent lamps, candle lighting was employed…
Cupid as a Link Boy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1771.
Georgian link extinguisher on a house in Bath, UK
Link boy extinguishing his torch in a link extinguisher at a doorway in Grosvenor Square, London