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| Keywords: Yablochkov candles illuminating Avenue de l'Opera ca1878.jpg At the Paris Exposition of 1878 electric arc lighting had been installed along the Avenue de l'Opera and the Place de l'Opera using electric Yablochkov arc lamps powered by Zénobe Gramme alternating current dynamos<ref> cite book http //www archive org/stream/measureforgreatn001419mbp/measureforgreatn001419mbp_djvu txt A Measure for Greatness A Short Biography of Edward Weston David Oakes Woodbury 1949 McGraw-Hill 83 2009-01-04 </ref><ref> cite book Electricity at the Columbian Exposition http //books google com/books id lF5KAAAAMAAJ pg PA3 1 John Patrick Barrett 2009-01-04 R R Donnelley sons company 1894 </ref><ref name berly> cite journal Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers IX 1880-3-24 Berly Notes on the Jablochkoff System of Electric Lighting http //books google com/books id lww4AAAAMAAJ pg PA143 32 143 2009-01-07 </ref> cite book http //books google com/books id 2KoOAAAAYAAJ pg PA26 page 26 The Electric Light Its History Production and Applications D Appleton and company 1884 Emile Alglave J Boulard Thomas O'Conor Sloane Charles Marshall Lungren Thomas O'Conor Sloane 2009-01-09 1894 A Rintel from partly legible signature in lower left PD-Old References Reflist Pavel Yablochkov Yablochkov candles Paris in the 1870s Lighting in France Paris 1870 Street lights in Paris 1870 Historical images of Avenue de l'Opéra Paris Paris 2e arrondissement in the 1880s | ||||
