Loading ...The lantern is the biggest in the world, being 4 meters high, weighing 1,200 kg and having 6 lit sides, all bearing a text about the event, each in a different foreign language, the project’s mastermind, the Banatul Philharmonics director and Timisoara Academic and Cultural Foundation (FACT) president Ioan Coriolan Garboni told.
The lamp ion rotates itself slowly and lights up the street.
Among Timisoara’s crucial energy history it is worth mentioning the year 1882 – when the City Hall reached a concession agreement with the British-Austrian Bruch Electrical Companz Ltd. for having the city’s streets electrically lit; the year 1884 when for the first time in Europe, 731 electric lamps were lit up in the street of the city, along 59 km, and when the lamps’ filaments were made of coal;
in 1889 the horsed-drawn trams began to be electrically operated; in 1893 Timisoara Electricity Plant was bought from the British company and entered the state property under the name of the Power Plant of Timisoara City; the 3-turbine equipped Hydro Power plant of the city became operational in 1910, but it stopped working during the World War I; in 1942, during the WWII the public lighting ceased, except 63 camouflaged lamps, while Timisoara Regional Electricity Enterprise IRET opened in 1949.
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