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Daily Archives: December 10, 2015

December 10, 1868 – the world’s first traffic lights in London

10 Thursday Dec 2015

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On December 10, 1868, the first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. (Days of History)

Read more at The British newspaper Archive and at the Victorianist.

john knight plaque

Jonh Peke Knight was the inventor of Traffic Lights

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