The world’s first traffic light went up in London in 1868 outside the Houses of Parliament—a gas-lit, hand-operated affair that eventually did what gas things do: it exploded.
The first electric traffic signal followed in 1914 in Cleveland, USA, kicking off the modern stop–go pantomime we all adore at rush hour.
By the 1920s the three-colour system took hold, turning horse-and-cart chaos into something vaguely civilised.
So every red light you curse has very Victorian origins—stiff upper lip included.
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