Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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-up1182arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1178arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month 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-up10·1 month agoI believe the first one that was electric and roughly similar to today’s was installed there.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI bet that one didn’t explode. Take that Englanders!
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 month 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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