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                            Illuminating the Revolution

Street lights and street lamps provide that wonderful air of mystery and the unknown when in tandem with fog and nostalgia.    But do they also carry messages of revolution?   Absolutely!

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For many of us, streetlights conjure up images of revolution almost immediately as we in America have been bombarded by pictures, movies, etc. of our early revolutionary citizens helping to light the way of Paul Revere (or perhaps Paul Revere awaking revolutionaries, as he rode with a light, illuminating his own way.)  This is certainly one of the ways we perceive a special time in our country's history, and it is revolutionary, but most of what we have been taught was perpetuated through crafty writership, (especially since Israel Bissel did the bulk of the riding to spread the word that the British were coming).   But this is beside the point, street lights, (as in electrified light), illuminating a street came much much later.

So, in that case, what do street lights have to do with revolution?   The revolution of Nikola Tesla.