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...
Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in 1897, initially working on balloons. They supplied Charles Rolls, amongst others. In 1908 Horace joined, the company wa...
Consulting engineering firm. Bruce and his brother Colin joined their father's firm in 1919 and 1923. John Wolfe Barry was already a partner. Bruce was knighted after WW2 and on the father's death ...
Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...
The conversion to automatic operation of all the lighthouses and light vessels. The last one to be done (perfectly timed to occur on Trafalgar Day) was North Foreland Light in Kent. For the 400 yea...
The professional institution for civil engineers, with members in the UK and many other countries. Founded by Henry Robinson Palmer, James Jones and Joshua Field. Its first president was Thomas Tel...
Royal Engineer killed by an exploding bomb while assisting in the attempt to disarm it. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Lance Corporal Douglas Mills was born about 1...
A web manager and trade union representative at London Metropolitan University, Unison have a memorial page for him. Killed in a all too familiar 'left-hook' collision, unseen by a lorry turning l...
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