Some history and facts about street lights

Some of the earliest examples of street lighting were in Peking around 500BC were they used bamboo to lead volcanic gases into their streets to be used as fuel street lamps.

The first electric street lamp named the Yablochkov candle, was implemented in Paris in 1878 and over the next 12 years began to replace about 4000 of the gas lanterns that were in use.

These days street lamps use incandescent bulbs in what they call high intensity discharge lamps since they are cheeper to make and emitted a brighter light, but even now the city of Melbourne are rolling out LED bulbs for their street lamps.