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The Bowery Boys: Electric New York

HISTORY This Week

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The Artistic Effects of Arc Lights

The innovator of this particular kind of light was a man named charles brush. He would actually be commissioned to install these kinds of outdoor arc lights for the city in 18 80. These gigantic lights on enormous poles that were twice the size of street lamps. And wed sufogate these marvellous, strange and mysterious shadows a hundred and 60 feet. The next year, in 18 81, he would outdo himself here at union square and at madison square with so called sun towers. This had anwys kind of trippyad kind of was.

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