Just A Salford Lad - Salford had the world's first street lights. For most of history, at the end of each day, our ancestors lived in a very dim and dark world.
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File:"Timisoara has the first electric street lighting in Europe" monument lamp --- file 01.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![Old street lamps against grey sky with overhead power lines wires, first lamp post is a decades old concrete type with SOX lamp, Glasgow Scotland UK Stock Photo - Alamy Old street lamps against grey sky with overhead power lines wires, first lamp post is a decades old concrete type with SOX lamp, Glasgow Scotland UK Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BWD5CM/old-street-lamps-against-grey-sky-with-overhead-power-lines-wires-first-lamp-post-is-a-decades-old-concrete-type-with-sox-lamp-glasgow-scotland-uk-2BWD5CM.jpg)
Old street lamps against grey sky with overhead power lines wires, first lamp post is a decades old concrete type with SOX lamp, Glasgow Scotland UK Stock Photo - Alamy
![ASCE Headquarters on X: "The 1st public gas street lamp was lit #OTD in 1817 in Baltimore, Maryland, making it the only city outside England at the time to adopt gas street ASCE Headquarters on X: "The 1st public gas street lamp was lit #OTD in 1817 in Baltimore, Maryland, making it the only city outside England at the time to adopt gas street](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFuzmvwXsAAFBqW.jpg)