Less than a month after the lights were installed the lamp blew up, seriously injuring the policeman who was operating it. See the IET and the Victorianist for two different takes on the story.
2017: Londonist describes how these rather odd lights worked, or not.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First traffic lights in world
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's fi...
Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighting in London. Londonist published a lovely piece about the lamp lights of Victorian London still burning across the city.
The picture source gives the history of the company, which changed its name in 2007.
Engineering research. FRS. Born 75 Kempe Road, Willesden. Carried out research on concrete at first the Building Research Station and then the Road Research Laboratory. During WW2 he was scienti...
Built to control the water level in the former Surrey Docks.
960 yards (878 metres) long, designed by James Morgan, built over the three years 1815 to 1818. Caroline's Miscellany has a good post.
