Street LightsBy: Brenda

In the Beginning …The first gas street lamp was in Baltimore, MD.

Lighting of streets was confined to only the best communities, and was provided by lamps which burned oils from animal fat.

Swiss chemist named Aime Argand invented a lamp with the wick bent into the shape of a hollow cylinder.

More about Lights…Whale Oil was the main oil to light street lamps.

UNTILL…Walter Murdock, a Scottish inventor found out that coal gas could burn for lamps.

Street lamps appeared in other small towns across America around 1875.

You got paid $13.33 to go around and light the street lamps.

The lighting system is always changing.

Of coarse once the light bulb was invented street lamps had light a lot easier

Solar Powered lights are the future for street lamps.

Websites:

http://inventors.about.com/od/starinventions/a/lighting.htm

http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/street_lamps.htm