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  2. LED street light - Wikipedia

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    Research continues to improve the efficiency of newer models of LED street lights (modernizing with LED street lights). However, LED street lighting is not as efficient as low-pressure sodium (SOX) street lighting in the United Kingdom. [clarification needed] An LED street light based on a 901-milliwatt output LED can normally produce the same ...

  3. Light-emitting diode - Wikipedia

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    Solar powered LEDs are used as street lights and in architectural lighting. The mechanical robustness and long lifetime are used in automotive lighting on cars, motorcycles, and bicycle lights. LED street lights are employed on poles and in parking garages. In 2007, the Italian village of Torraca was the first place to convert its street ...

  4. Street light - Wikipedia

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    A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform .

  5. List of Indian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    It also does not include not a new idea, indigenous alternatives, low-cost alternatives, technologies or discoveries developed elsewhere and later invented separately in India, nor inventions by Indian emigres or Indian diaspora in other places. Changes in minor concepts of design or style and artistic innovations do not appear in the lists.

  6. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    1875 Henry Woodward patents an electric light bulb. 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris. 1879 (About Christmas time) Col. R. E. Crompton illuminated his home in Porchester Gardens, using a primary battery of Grove Cells, then a generator which was better ...

  7. LED lamp - Wikipedia

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    A 230-volt LED filament lamp, with an E27 base. The filaments are visible as the eight yellow vertical lines. An assortment of LED lamps commercially available in 2010: floodlight fixtures (left), reading light (center), household lamps (center right and bottom), and low-power accent light (right) applications An 80W Chips on board (COB) LED module from an industrial light luminaire, thermally ...

  8. History of traffic lights - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 385 Wolverhampton was the first British town to introduce automated traffic lights in 1927 in Princes Square at the junction of Lichfield Street and Princess Street on a trial basis. [17] Great Britain's first permanent automated traffic lights were opened on 16 March 1928 in Leeds , on the corner of Park Row and Bond Street.

  9. Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All - Wikipedia

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    Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) [2] was a project to distribute efficient LED lighting, launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 5 Jan 2015. [3] [4] The project is spearheaded by the Energy Efficiency Services Limited. [5] In non-subsidized LED lamp distribution projects, this program is considered the world's largest.