City Lights
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Victoria Charles. City Lights
Introduction
Africa
Asia
Europe
Oceania
North America
Central and South America
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Business Centre, Moscow, Russia.
While the oil lamp continued to undergo enhancements with various inventions, particularly those of Antoine-Arnault Quinquet and Ambroise Bonnaventure Lange, gas lighting was experiencing its beginnings in Europe in the early 19th century (China had already been using it for a long time), thanks to the discovery in 1792 of a method for distilling coal by Scottish engineer William Murdoch and French inventor Jean-Pierre Minckelers.
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The Hillbrow Tower, visible to the far left of this photograph, is a telecommunications tower built in Hillbrow, a suburb of Johannesburg, between 1968 and 1971. With its height of nearly 270 metres, it dominates Johannesburg’s skyline and has become a landmark of the city, evident in the use of the tower as part of the ‘b’ in the city’s official logo.
Mponeng Gold Mine, Carletonville, South Africa.
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