Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL the first ever traffic light was installed in London in 1868. A month later, it exploded. It was gas-lit.nationalmotormuseum.org.ukexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1183arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1179arrow-down1external-linkTIL the first ever traffic light was installed in London in 1868. A month later, it exploded. It was gas-lit.nationalmotormuseum.org.ukSilverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agowtf??? I’ve gone my whole life thinking the first ever traffic light was invented and installed in Cleveland Ohio. Turns out, it was just the first ever in the USA. This is what they taught us in schools…in Cleveland Ohio.
minus-squareSilverchase@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoI believe the first one that was electric and roughly similar to today’s was installed there.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoI bet that one didn’t explode. Take that Englanders!
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·4 months agoDamn sounds like they gaslit you.
wtf??? I’ve gone my whole life thinking the first ever traffic light was invented and installed in Cleveland Ohio. Turns out, it was just the first ever in the USA. This is what they taught us in schools…in Cleveland Ohio.
I believe the first one that was electric and roughly similar to today’s was installed there.
I bet that one didn’t explode. Take that Englanders!
Damn sounds like they gaslit you.
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