FRANKLIN STREET LAMPS, Philadelphia

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Hundreds of these reverse-crooked, simple posts containing a parallelogramatical 4-paned glass surface light the streets of Society Hill near downtown Philadelphia. They are named “Franklin lights” because they were inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s street lighting idea in the colonial era. Noticing that the glass luminaires on oil lamps found in London and Paris had to [...]

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