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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.

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  • P1250908 Paris Ier Pont Neuf mobilier urbain rwk

    Detail of a street light from Paris

  • Murdoch House & St. Rumon's Gardens

    William Murdoch's house in Redruth, UK, the first domestic house in the world to be lit by gas

  • Street Lighting and Posts Morris Tasker and Co Illustrated Catalogue (1871)

    Street lights from an 1871 catalog

  • Yablochkov candles illuminating Avenue de l'Opera ca1878

    Demonstration of Yablochkov's arc lamp on the Avenue de l'Opera in Paris (1878), the first form of electric street lighting

  • Map of electric street lighting in Tamworth NSW, 1888

    Map of Tamworth, New South Wales, showing the position of leads and lights along the network of city streets in 1888

  • Bus at Night

    The distinctive monochromatic yellow glow from a low-pressure sodium lamp in the UK

  • Sodiumlamp

    An unlit high-pressure sodium lamp

  • Street lamp hunting lodge Moenchbruch - Straßenlaterne Jagdschloss Mönchbruch

    Old-style street light with lamps near the Mönchbruch hunting lodge near Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany

  • No street lighting Leeds July 2014

    Sign in Leeds, UK indicating part-night lighting, meant to save energy and reduce light pollution.

  • INDO Light with telecell

    A street lamp with a telecell installed. This communicates with the council's central management system.

  • The Plaza at sunset, Samaipata, Bolivia

    Decorative but functional lamps in the Plaza at sunset, Samaipata, Bolivia

  • Highway 401 Night Lapse Busy

    High-mast lighting along Highway 401 in Ontario, Canada

  • Cycle path on The Roundway Tottenham London England

    Safe cycling with a dedicated bicycle path with street lights in London

  • 43302 King's Cross (13176739875)

    Lights similar to street lights are used at train stations; these are at London King's Cross

  • Fietspad PeeWee32

    A Fietspad or bicycle path in the Netherlands with street lighting

  • New York City Street Light Status

    New York City fire alarm pull box indicator mounted on street light

  • Base de farola fernandina

    Typical base and escutcheon of a farola fernandina

  • Aranjuez FarolaFernandina

    A farola fernandina in Aranjuez

  • Aranjuez PalacioReal Farola

    Street light in Ferdinand VII style near the Royal Palace of Aranjuez

  • Paris Notre Dame19042017
  • Street light-hrad bratislava

    A historical Slovak lamppost

  • 3lamps

    Polish street lights from the 1930s

  • Straßenlaterne

    German streetlight at night

  • 2014-10-30 11 28 51 Old street lamp on Fireside Avenue in Ewing, New Jersey

    Street light from the 1950s attached to a utility pole in New Jersey

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