Sentence examples for electric light station from inspiring English sources
UNPACK Glasgow's handsome Hotel Indigo (0141 226 7700; hotelindigoglasgow.com) has an intriguing history: it was first an "electric light station", designed by W M Foulis for the city, and generated electricity to light homes when it first opened in 1892.
Conceived at the height of the cycling craze in the 1890s, 2km of the raised timber track was constructed – complete with electric lighting and stations for renting, storing and repairing bicycles at either end.
Electric light signals of the "searchlight" pattern were later introduced at busy stations; these could show the same red/green or yellow/green aspects that semaphore signals showed at night.
PARIS — Half a million Parisians were deprived for nearly an hour either of electric light or travelling facilities by electric tramways and railroads by a fire which broke out at the big electric power station at Saint-Denis a few minutes before six o'clock yesterday [Dec. 7] evening.
ELECTRIC LIGHT, by Seamus Heaney.
The boom collapsed with the electric light.
/ We turn to cold electric light".
It's less sexy by electric light.
"Electric light is pure information," he wrote.
The factory produced electric light bulbs.
