What was the first city in the US to use natural gas street lights?
On the evening of June 11, 1816, local businessmen and socialites were invited to Rembrandt Peale’s Museum for a demonstration under the glow of artificial light.
At the corner of North Holliday Street and East Baltimore Street stands a monument to the first gas street lamp in the United States. Erected in 1997, the lamp is a replica of the early 19th century original. During a candlelit period in American history the forward-thinking Peale aimed to form a business around his gas light innovations, the exhibition targeting potential investors.
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wok
1803: Pelham Street in Newport, Rhode Island was the first section of road in America to introduce the gas lights invented by William Murdoch
Kenneth Jacobs
The idea that Edgar Allen Poe, who lived for several years in Baltimore, may have suffered from CO poisoning caused by gas lighting has been widely debated. Many of the symptoms CO poisoning are vividly described in Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher."
Ike Hinlo Caceres
Interesting.