San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 168
- ow, dark streets of several :ities, oil lamps appeared. rhese wick - burning lamps vere mounted on a post, and vere the earliest approach to )ur present type of street ighting. The oil street lamp )ecame popular in a number )f the larger continental cen- ers, and went through an in- eresting… … introducti(jn of the mantle. This form oflighting, with its architecturally treatedstandard, is still in use in cities near naturalgas supply, and in other cities as well. The arc light was the most satisfactory ofthe early applications of electricity to streetlighting. Its intensity was far in…
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