Talk:History of street lighting in the United States/Archive 1

Shortcomings of HPS streetlights
Can someone add some decent information on this topic? What's currently in the article doesn't make sense - what are "cycling" lights? GoodSirJava 01:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The information here also is inconsistent with that at sodium vapor lamp—specifically, this article says that high-pressure lamplight is monochromatic orange and is used widely for streetlights, whereas that article says these characteristics apply to low pressure lamps. Something's wrong here.... --TreyHarris 20:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

"Cycling" is a term used when the light flickers, attempts to illuminate, stops, cools down, then tries again, and again. This is very common with HPS lights, although there are rare instances that MV and MH lights will cycle at the end of their life cycles also.

Low Pressure Sodium lights near or at the end of their life cycle will glow a dull red color, or will simply not light

MV and MH lights get very dim at the end of their life cycles, but MH lights sometimes have a pink glow when they are near the end of their life cycle

Inconsistency
Some other Wikipedia web site indicates that Attalla, Alabama is the first US town to have electric street lighting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_light Which one is it? New York or Attalla?


 * It is Attalla apparently. Please tag your messages with 4 tildes, thanks. Binarypower 16:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * According to this, the first city in the world to be lit by electric streetlamps was Cleveland, Ohio, in 1879. Uncle G 09:48, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * You are correct. Cleveland was. Binarypower 03:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Too many links
I just started to clean up a little, but if anyone has the time, some of these links can be taken out. Every instance of a given word doesn't need to be linked. 18.173.1.42 18:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

what da hell?
why is this article called history of street lighting in United States but it says first time street lighting was used was in london or something in the first sentence? is dis article about london or u.s.? --218.101.69.142 00:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes it was invented in London, this is just for historical information. You can't have an article about a subject in a particular area that does not mention where it originated. -Uagehry456talk 00:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Dayburner
A Dayburner is a light fixture or luminare that stays lit during daylight hours often due to the faliure of the photocell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.254.131 (talk) 19:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Early Arcs and incandenscents
Can we add a section on street arc lighting and incandescents?

good article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.77.4 (talk) 16:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Lifetime
The lifetime of various lights is poorly described and comparisons are poorly structured. -- SEWilco (talk) 04:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Lots of non-history
Many of the topics include a lot of information that could probably be pulled into a separate article, for instance "Means of electric light generation" has a little bit of history but a lot of otherwise useful information. Sure, the history in there is useful, but providing detailed information on the types of lamps should be broken out into a separate article-- if I were looking for this information, I would NOT think to look at an article with this title.

Same thing goes for Optical Types and Manufacturers, etc.

Jlink7 (talk) 13:41, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Wattage rating of retrofitted LED lamps
In the main article, it mentions the power rating of the lamp (with respect to HPS/LPS, Hg Vapour and MH lamp). With the replacement of these lamps with LEDs, does the label represent the equivalent light output of a XX watt or the actual power consumption of the lamp? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.234.210 (talk) 18:50, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Ceramic discharge metal halide lamps will probably be the next step in streetlighting???
And this is "history" in what context? Much of the material in this article is superfluous to a history of street lighting in the US, and much historical material is missing. 173.11.27.241 (talk) 20:35, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Is it a "history" article?
For an article with "history" in the title it is pretty scarce on dates. Can anyone identify the approximate years when the different forms of street lighting mentioned were employed? patsw (talk) 02:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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