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# 12 Bridge Street, Westminster Standing at this corner where Bridge Street meets the traffic of modern London, you're standing at the precise spot where John Peake Knight made history on 9th December 1868—the day he erected the world's first traffic light, a gas-lit semaphore apparatus that rose a...

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12 Bridge Street, Westminster

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John Peake Knight 1828-86 Inventor of the world's first traffic lights which were erected here 9th Dec. 1868