<P> The first street to be lit by an incandescent lightbulb was Mosley Street, in Newcastle upon Tyne . The street was lit by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879 . Consequently, Newcastle was the first city in the world to be fully lit up by lighting . The first street to be lit with modern electricity as we know it was Electric Avenue in London's Brixton in 1880 . The first city in the United States, and second overall after Newcastle (England), was the Public Square road system in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 29, 1879 . Wabash, Indiana holds the title of being the third electrically lit city in the world, which took place on February 2, 1880 . Four 3,000 candlepower Brush arc lamps suspended over the courthouse rendered the town square "as light as midday . </P> <P> Kimberley, South Africa, was the first city in the Southern Hemisphere and in Africa to have electric street lights - first lit on 1 September 1882 . In Central America, San Jose, Costa Rica was the first city, the system was launched on August 9, 1884, with 25 lamps powered by a hydroelectric plant . </P> <P> Timișoara, in present - day Romania, was the first city in Continental Europe to have electric public lighting on 12 November 1884 . 731 lamps were used . </P> <P> In 1886, the tiny, isolated mining town of Waratah in NW Tasmania was the first to have electrically powered street lighting in Australia . On 9 December 1882, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia was introduced to electricity by having a demonstration of using eight arc lights, erected along Queen Street Mall . The power to supply these arc lights was taken from a 10 hp Crompton DC generator driven by a Robey steam engine in a small foundry in Adelaide Street and occupied by J.W. Sutton and Co . The lamps were erected on cast iron standards, 20 ft in height . In 1888 Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia became the first location in New South Wales to have electric street lighting, for which that city erroneously maintains the title of "First City of Light". </P>

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