The Primitive Streetlights That Predicted Electronic Music in 1899
They were uncomfortably bright and harsh compared to the incandescent lightbulbs that would soon enough replace them—in the US they were often housed atop very tall “moonlight towers”—but arc lamps had another undesirable side effect: noise.

December 21, 2015 at 12:55PM
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