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    The San Jose electric light tower, also known as Owen's Electric Tower after its creator and chief booster, was constructed in 1881 at an intersection...
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  • San Jose Historical Museum Association plaque located beneath the tower. Larson, Linda S. (1989). San Jose's Monument to Progress: The Electric Light...
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  • construction of the San Jose Electric Light Tower, ostensibly to replace the gas streetlights that had illuminated downtown San Jose since 1861. It didn't...
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  • proposed to light San Jose with a moonlight tower. The San Jose electric light tower was dedicated that year. The Mercury boasted that San Jose was the first...
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    under the Light Tower replica. A half scale replica of the San Jose Electric Light Tower that used to tower 237 feet (72 m) over downtown San Jose at Santa...
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    Waters, Circle of Palms Plaza, San Jose City Hall, San Jose Flea Market, Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose electric light tower, and The Tech Museum of Innovation...
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    San Jose Diridon station is the central passenger rail depot for San Jose, California. It also serves as a major intermodal transit center for Santa Clara...
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    high-voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a support for aerials) and in observation towers. Its advantage...
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    the demand for electric light in the stores and factories of downtown San Francisco continued to grow. The first electric street light was erected in...
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    San Jose, officially the City of San Jose (Filipino: Lungsod ng San Jose; Ilocano: Siudad ti San Jose), is a 2nd class component city in the province...
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    000-candlepower lamps on towers around Cleveland's Public Square (then known as Monumental Park), and fully illuminated it with electric light. The first municipal...
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    Sam Liccardo (category Mayors of San Jose, California)
    an American politician from California who served as the 65th mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Liccardo was elected...
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    List of tourist attractions in Santa Clara Valley (category San Francisco Bay Area-related lists)
    Palo Alto San Jose electric light tower (model, in History Park at Kelley Park, San Jose) San Jose State University, downtown San Jose Santa Clara University...
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    attractions such as the Eiffel Tower and the Sydney Opera House. It is believed that the first outdoor public electric light Christmas Holiday display was...
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    America, San Jose, Costa Rica, lit 25 lamps powered by a hydroelectric plant on 9 August 1884. Nuremberg was the first city in Germany to have electric public...
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    Century, 3. Robertson, Mark (29 May 2013). "Looking Back: San Jose's Electric Light Tower". San José Public Library. Retrieved 18 August 2017. The Modesto...
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  • in Nevada Westgate City Center, Glendale, Arizona Westgate Center, in San Jose, California Westgate, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada...
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  • online in San Jose Tesla Motors (pictured) is founded in Palo Alto Adobe World Headquarters, Almaden tower in San Jose is completed 2004 San Francisco...
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    National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (category Electric power transmission system operators in the Philippines)
    2018, NGCP started building 500kV lattice towers of Balsik-Marilao-San Jose segment of Balsik-Marilao-San Jose-Tayabas-Pagbilao and Castillejos-Hermosa...
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    An electric bus is a bus that is propelled using electric motors, as opposed to a conventional internal combustion engine. Electric buses can store the...
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    The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, or simply Tower of Terror, is a series of similar accelerated drop tower dark rides located at Disney's Hollywood Studios...
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    1975, a small battery-operated back-up strobe light was installed outside the tower, and the main light was turned on permanently. The present signal...
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    Muni Metro light rail system, three historic cable car lines, and two historic streetcar lines. Previously an independent agency, the San Francisco Municipal...
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    Caltrain Modernization Program (category Electric railways in California)
    double-tracked line from San Francisco to San Jose, and acquisition of new rolling stock, consisting of Stadler KISS double-decker electric multiple units (EMU)...
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    a great deal of electric light illumination, an observation tower with electric elevators, and several prototype designs of electric streetcars. Montgomery...
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    Palo Alto, California (category Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area)
    control of Spain. On November 29, 1777, Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe (now the city of San Jose a few miles to the south of what was to be Palo Alto)...
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    Neon lighting (redirect from Neon light)
    Vegas!!!!" San Jose, California is one of many cities that had an anti-neon ordinance; see Gaura, Maria Alicia (August 26, 1998). "San Jose Changes Neon...
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    turned to real estate and electric traction for streetcars. The Key System was founded as the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose Railway (SFOSJR), incorporated...
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    flying into San Jose International Airport have frequently complained of being blinded or disoriented by the lights from the light towers and scoreboards...
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    condo tower - San Francisco Business Times". Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. "Another Contender for Tallest Residential Building in San Francisco"...
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