Historical story

1800:the First Public Lighting

Public lighting in the 19th century in Milan

For centuries the streets at night have represented a serious danger to people, since the darkness not only favored accidents and falls, but also the bad guys, who with the darkness, were more pushed to kill and rob.

The advent of electricity everything changed:the streets, initially only in large cities and then gradually even in small towns, were illuminated and therefore became much safer.

The first public lighting system was made in New York in the not too distant 1882 .