gas lamps

188778_fortepan_82557_1887_budapest_fovaros_leveltara._leveltari_jelzet_hu.bfl.xv.19.d.1.08.032.jpg The first gas lamps in Pest were lit 165 years ago At night in Budapest, thousands of gas lamps once provided light, which had to be lit one by one by the lamplighters every night and then extinguished at dawn. The gas lamps lived their heyday in the second half of the 19th century, the first street gas flames in Pest were lit on today's Rákóczi Road 165 years ago.

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