{"id":18670,"date":"2017-01-20T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18670"},"modified":"2017-01-19T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T13:41:15","slug":"then-and-now-lighting-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/then-and-now-lighting-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Then And Now: Lighting Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/livedesignonline.com\/architainment\/then-and-now-lighting-niagara-falls\">Live Design<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls was first lit in 1860 with 200 Bengal lights for a celebration for the Prince of Wales. The first use of electric lights came in 1879, when the falls were illuminated by carbon arc lights for a special visit by the governor-general of Canada. Then 1901 saw the falls lit for an entire week during the Pan-American Exposition and, subsequently, in 1907 for a month-long display. Searchlights aimed at the American falls were colored by gelatin film placed in front of the lights by men that were paid 50\u00a2 per night to stand beside them, changing colors by listening for a commanding series of whistle blows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article to learn more about the history of the lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Live Design: Niagara Falls was first lit in 1860 with 200 Bengal lights for a celebration for the Prince of Wales. The first use of electric lights came in 1879, when the falls were illuminated by carbon arc lights for a special visit by the governor-general of Canada. Then 1901 saw the falls lit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[11696,11692,650,11695,11693,1440,11690,41,11691,11694],"class_list":["post-18670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-scenery","tag-11696","tag-11692","tag-american-falls","tag-bengal-lights","tag-electric-lights","tag-illumination","tag-live-design","tag-niagara-falls","tag-pan-american-expositiion","tag-prince-of-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18671,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670\/revisions\/18671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}