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.
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First traffic lights in world
City of Westminster John Peake Knight, 1828 - 86, inventor of the world's fi...
The picture source gives the history of the company, which changed its name i...
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round po...
Civil and mechanical engineer. Born Essex. 1900 he became the first London ...
