It was announced on the Times Square website that the year numerals for the 2010 ball drop would use LED lights.

This left four stories of the Cumberland's northern face exposed, which Eno rented out to advertisers, including the New York Times, who installed a sign made up of electric lights.

From there, he pulls stunts like renaming Barney Baruch's private bench as " Bugs Bunny ", painting barbershop-pole stripes on the Washington Monument, rewiring the lights in Times Square to read " Bugs Bunny Wuz Here ", shutting down Niagara Falls, selling the entire island of Manhattan back to Native Americans, sawing Florida off from the rest of the country, swiping all the locks off the Panama Canal, filling in the Grand Canyon, and literally tying up railroad tracks.

Los Angeles Times columnist Mark Olsen considered Ramsay " one of the leading lights of young British cinema ", describing her additionally as " among the most celebrated British filmmakers of her generation.

Its Big TV !- directed music video, which features the group in Times Square in New York City with fast moving cars appearing around multi-coloured lights, was completely shot against a green screen at a studio in London.

In the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas wrote " it is above all such an unsettling experience you find yourself still taking it all in well after the lights have gone up ".

In the 1870s, developer Amos Eno's Cumberland apartment building, which stood on 22nd Street where the Flatiron Building would eventually be built, had four-stories of its back wall facing Madison Square, so Eno rented it out to advertisers, including the New York Times, who installed a sign made up of electric lights.

Times Square features the familiar bright neon lights, and the Naked Cowboy can be found playing his guitar.

Los Angeles Times said of the film: " Session 9 is so effective that its sense of uncertainty lingers long after the theater lights have gone up.

Also, the canopy and matching street lights in Public Square and across downtown were removed ; the replacements are new green lampposts.

It was replaced with a four intersection square with traffic lights, and is now called Drum Hill Square.

" Only an eleven-minute ride from Center Square in York, it featured high ground with perfect natural drainage, cement walks and curbs, macadamized streets, pure filtered water, electric lights, and a complete sewer system.

In 1836 – 1837, Montferrand completed the Palace Square with fencing and gas lights.

* Centre Square in Easton, Pennsylvania, where access is controlled by traffic lights.

One Canada Square has been ' named and shamed ' for being the top building to leave the lights on unnecessarily.

The research carried out by the BBC Inside Out team found that on midnight Sunday, One Canada Square left more lights on than any other building in London.

In 2010, Crown Square was much improved with the replacement of pavements and street furniture for a new look which is more appropriate to the conservation area, the old tarmac pavements and traffic island being rebuilt in genuine local sandstone, barriers replaced with heritage bollards and all the street lights replaced.

Christmas lights in Sloane Square.

During the Christmas holiday season, hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights sparkle from trees and shrubs around Temple Square, but only until 9pm.

During the Winter, lights and seasonal decorations adorn the gardens along with an ice-skating rink in the Waterwheel Square.

The stations are close enough that it is possible to see the lights of 14th Street – Union Square down the tracks from the two side platforms of this station.

Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree with lights in London, United Kingdom.

The Criterion Theatre opened on Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1874, and in 1881, two more houses appeared: the Savoy Theatre in The Strand, built by Richard D ' Oyly Carte specifically to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, opened on 10 October ( the first theatre to be lit by cooler, cleaner electric lights ), and five days later the Comedy Theatre opened as the Royal Comedy Theatre on Panton Street in Leicester Square.

The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church lights a large bonfire in Maskal Square, Addis Ababa's greatest open arena, and smaller bonfires are lit by individuals and local parishes throughout the country.

Special features included a Sony 4 band radio which could be removed from the dashboard and used as a portable radio, auxiliary dials, Lucas Square 8 fog lights, matt black bonnet, dash mounted ice detector and map lights.

The Richmond Street side of The Bay's Queen Street store was redressed as Madison Square Garden, complete with fake store fronts and period stop lights.

In 1879 the city authorized the Brush Electric Light Company to build a generating station at 25th Street, powered by steam, that provided electricity for a series of arc lights which were installed on Broadway between Union Square ( at 14th Street ) and Madison Square.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

As the lights came up, Andy could see that a number of patrons were already on their way toward the exit.

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.

Electric lights were in use by 1888.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

The lights were like large pylons towering 50 metres over the ground and were similar in appearance to those at the WACA.

Except in times of danger, the lights were to be placed outside one's door, on the opposite side of the Mezuza, or in the window closest to the street.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

The racks were themselves packaged into a single large mainframe case, with a hexagonal control panel containing switches and lights mounted to lay at table-top height at one end of the mainframe.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

The main sources used were modified arc lights made for street lighting.

Large mercury vapour tube lights ( Cooper-Hewitts ) were also used in racks placed in the same way.

Two days after her death, the lights of the Empire State Building were extinguished for 15 minutes in her memory.

* In 1947, arc lights were installed at Fenway Park.

The Boston Red Sox were the third-to-last team out of 16 major league teams to have lights in their home park.

Fluorescent lights were first available to the public at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Sound, lights, and visual setups were brought along to every gig of the tour.

Before modern strobe lights, lenses were used to concentrate the light from a continuous source.

In more modern lighthouses, electric lights and motor drives were used, generally powered by diesel electric generators.