THREE-COLOUR SIGNALS, OPERATED (4)___ HAND FROM A TOWER IN THE (...

1914. Three-colour signals, operated (4)___ hand from a tower in the (5)___ of the street, were installed in New York in 1918. The (6)___ lights of this type to appear in Britain were in London, on the junction between St. Jam’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed (7)___ year later. In the past, traffic lights were special. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los Angeles the lights did not just (8)___ silently, but would ring bells to (9)___ the sleeping motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been (10)___ by standard models which are universally adopted.

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