150 years since the world’s first traffic light - BBC London News

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  • Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
  • Traffic lights - they bring us to a standstill in order to keep London moving. The world's first traffic light was installed outside Parliament in London 150 years ago. And of course they've changed a bit since then. BBC London’s Transport Correspondent Tom Edwards reports.

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  • @robertjv
    @robertjv Рік тому +5

    Who ever thought of Traffic lights is a freaking genius.

    • @marklittler784
      @marklittler784 Рік тому

      I think it's the one that thought of roundabouts myself

  • @obedboateng3004
    @obedboateng3004 3 роки тому +6

    Why was traffic light mostly credited to Garret Morgan and not John Peake Knight since he was the very first to invent traffic light system?

    • @ryanparker4996
      @ryanparker4996 2 роки тому

      Because Garret Morgan is black, amd black people love to eggerrate their contribution to society and civilisation because they think we owe them something. (We dont)

    • @Armed-Forever
      @Armed-Forever Рік тому +1

      wokeism

  • @brianprahasto8271
    @brianprahasto8271 5 років тому +11

    I like the traffic light with red+amber before green. Exactly when the traffic light in London using red+amber before green?

    • @vincentdeguard4726
      @vincentdeguard4726 5 років тому +1

      that the current set-up for all traffic lights....green, amber, red, red+amber, green

    • @n.agustin113
      @n.agustin113 2 роки тому

      In Argentina we use this setting for traffic lights:
      1. Red
      2. Red & Yellow
      3. Green
      4. Blinking green and yellow
      5. Red

  • @SinisterServal
    @SinisterServal 3 роки тому +2

    Wish we could see a replica of J.P Knight’s traffic lights in action.

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому +1

    Keep Calm and Carry on.

  • @amitsidhu1336
    @amitsidhu1336 5 років тому +9

    Lights in uk were originally made in Wolverhampton

  • @CookieMonster-hz5ry
    @CookieMonster-hz5ry Рік тому

    Uks first traffic lights were in wolverhampton

  • @aidanogorman7176
    @aidanogorman7176 4 роки тому +4

    BBC how did you know everything

    • @SinisterServal
      @SinisterServal 3 роки тому +1

      BBC is an old company and England is an old country.

  • @cantbants
    @cantbants 6 років тому +16

    First...
    ...Traffic Light

  • @DeTrafficStreetBeatz
    @DeTrafficStreetBeatz 3 роки тому +5

    🚦🚦🚦🚦

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому

    London Law Enforcement Police Officers.

  • @emiliob7428
    @emiliob7428 4 роки тому +1

    Wow

  • @holoGEI
    @holoGEI 6 років тому +3

    boom. lol.

  • @vegarstuen190
    @vegarstuen190 5 років тому +2

    Hehe. Interesting

  • @robnewman6101
    @robnewman6101 Рік тому

    WW2 1939-1945.

  • @quinntang5614
    @quinntang5614 4 роки тому

    Lord of Gods, please give me my wish, that I was born with Liability, Typical, Ability, and Average and no Autism, Disabillities and Mental Retardation in July 1st, 2002.

  • @aali8892
    @aali8892 3 роки тому +3

    USA was the first country made traffic light

    • @ismailwasswa8268
      @ismailwasswa8268 3 роки тому +3

      Remind them and stop them from glorifying them selves over other people's inventions

    • @sprPee
      @sprPee 2 роки тому +2

      No it wasn’t

    • @sprPee
      @sprPee 2 роки тому +2

      The first system of traffic signals was installed as a way to replace police officer control of vehicular traffic outside the Houses of Parliament in London on 9 December 1868.

    • @joeyharper4976
      @joeyharper4976 Рік тому

      This is why the American education system failed you. It was created in London decades before the U.S.

    • @marklittler784
      @marklittler784 Рік тому

      ​@@sprPee You must have been eating all the right food to have witnessed that.