Demonstrates city's pioneering electric street light scheme

Piia Wirsu
March 29 2017 - 10:30am
PIONEERING: Duck River power station provided electricity for Launceston's street lights - a pioneering idea at the time. Pictures: Published with permission of QVMAG
PIONEERING: Duck River power station provided electricity for Launceston's street lights - a pioneering idea at the time. Pictures: Published with permission of QVMAG

In the beginning there was darkness, and then God said, ‘Let there be light’. So it was in Launceston on the evening of February 1, 1896.

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Piia Wirsu

Piia Wirsu

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