Streetlight Facts for Kids

Streetlight

A streetlight is a light bulb on a pole used for lighting streets. Streets can be lit for safety or visibility reasons, so people can see where they are walking at night. Streetlights are normally either orange or blue. The blue ones are mercury-vapor lamps. They are older and last longer. The orange ones are sodium vapor lamps. They are newer and more efficient.

Incandescent bulb, rarely used in streetlights
Fluorescent bulb

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Detail of a street light from Paris
William Murdoch's house in Redruth, UK, the first domestic house in the world to be lit by gas
Street lights from an 1871 catalog
Demonstration of Yablochkov's arc lamp on the Avenue de l'Opera in Paris (1878), the first form of electric street lighting
Map of Tamworth, New South Wales, showing the position of leads and lights along the network of city streets in 1888
The distinctive monochromatic yellow glow from a low-pressure sodium lamp in the UK
An unlit high-pressure sodium lamp
Old-style street light with lamps near the Mönchbruch hunting lodge near Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany
Sign in Leeds, UK indicating part-night lighting, meant to save energy and reduce light pollution.
A street lamp with a telecell installed. This communicates with the council's central management system.
Decorative but functional lamps in the Plaza at sunset, Samaipata, Bolivia
High-mast lighting along Highway 401 in Ontario, Canada
Safe cycling with a dedicated bicycle path with street lights in London
Lights similar to street lights are used at train stations; these are at London King's Cross
A Fietspad or bicycle path in the Netherlands with street lighting
New York City fire alarm pull box indicator mounted on street light
Typical base and escutcheon of a farola fernandina
A farola fernandina in Aranjuez
Street light in Ferdinand VII style near the Royal Palace of Aranjuez
A historical Slovak lamppost
Polish street lights from the 1930s
German streetlight at night
Street light from the 1950s attached to a utility pole in New Jersey

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