The History of the Lamplighter — The Job That Lit Every City on Earth
Before Edison flipped a switch, a human being had to physically walk every street on Earth and light every lamp by hand, every single night, for over two hundred years. This is the true story of the lamplighter — from a Paris police chief's candle ropes in 1667, to 25,000 men lighting Victorian London, to the gas stokers jailed for striking, to the five men who still do this job tonight. 🔥🌆 If this changed the way you look at the streetlamp outside your window, subscribe to Trade Lore for more forgotten trades and lost worlds every week 📚 Drop a comment — which part hit you hardest? The Beckton stokers' strike, Stevenson's poem, or the fact five lamplighters still walk London tonight? #Lamplighter #GasLight #VictorianHistory #ForgottenHistory #HistoryOfLondon #IndustrialHistory #GildedAge #ThomasEdison #HistoryOfTrade #LostTrades #EconomicHistory #WorldHistory #19thCentury #StreetLighting #TradeLore
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