Sentences with phrase «electric street»

Well for the moment the future of electric street racing in the capital seems unclear.

The first electric street lights in America were lit here on Ganson Street.

The city also attracted the first electric street car system in 1886 in addition to the first Wright Brothers flight school in 1910.

This is where the main campus of the University of Tennessee is located, where the first electric street car was operated, and where the Great Smoky Mountains National Park can be driven to.

The first city in America to put in an entirely electric street light system, Aurora has always been on the forefront of innovation and self - improvement.

Infrastructure is the best example; for a hefty sum you can upgrade a district with things like electricity and a water pipe and telephone lines, which in turn unlock stuff like electric street lights, sewer systems and eventually so much more.

Now, Singh's electric street photographs, described by Mia Fineman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as «teeming with incident» — are in New York in two coinciding exhibitions: Raghubir Singh: Bombay at Howard Greenberg Gallery and Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs at the Met Breuer.

Buffalo became the first city in North America to install electric street lights, as a result.

The first city in America to put in an entirely electric street light system, Aurora has always been on the forefront of innovation and self - improvement.

A fully - electric street racing series, the ABB FIA Formula E Championship is made up of 10 teams and 20 drivers, with races taking place in cities like New York, Paris and Hong Kong.

For Formula E, the world's first electric street - racing series that began in 2014, the race was its first in NYC.

In the nineteenth - century United States, for example, those who profited from canals, barges, stagecoaches, and the pony express resisted the construction of railroads; in England, electric street lighting spread slowly, partly because of opposition from local governments with heavy investments in gas lighting.

Its electric street lamps were purchased from Baker's own pocket.

Aurora, one of the largest cities in Illinois, is known as The City of Lights, a nickname that was earned by being the first city in the country to have all electric street lights.

swimming up close and personal with the inhabitants of the Great Barrier Reef... roaming the electric streets of Tokyo at 3 am in a sake - fuelled haze... ah, the possibilities!

She explains: «I decided to take the dancers out of their comfort zone so instead of shooting in the photo studio, I used New York as the background — creating a unique contrast between the beauty of the dancers and the electric streets.

We really need to put back the electric street cars (trolly to you non-New Orleanians) and the electric buses from the 40's (look them up, they existed, they worked).

re Troy: «We really need to put back the electric street cars (trolly to you non-New Orleanians) and the electric buses from the 40's (look them up, they existed, they worked).»

Aurora, one of the largest cities in Illinois, is known as The City of Lights, a nickname that was earned by being the first city in the country to have all electric street lights.

Aurora was one of the first cities to have an electric street lighting system and was subsequently nicknamed the «City of Lights».

The electric street light system established in early 1880s burned the city into the national imagination.

As one of the first US cities to have electric street lights throughout town, Aurora is nicknamed the «City of Lights» and is so large it extends into four different Illinois counties.

The City of Lights got its nickname in 1908 after becoming the first U.S. city to implement an all - electric street lighting system in 1881.

Long before many other modern cities, Lexington had a police force, electric street lights, modern plumbing, and sidewalks.