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Who invented traffic lights and where were the first ones situated?
THE FIRST traffic signal was invented by J P Knight, a railway signalling engineer.
It was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868 and looked like any railway signal of the time, with waving semaphore arms and red-green lamps, operated by gas, for night use.
Unfortunately it exploded, killing a policeman. The accident discouraged further development until the era of the internal combustion engine.
Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green systems were installed in Cleveland in 1914.
Three-colour signals, operated manually from a tower in the middle of the street, were installed in New York in 1918.
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