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For example, the use of electricity, he said, led to the displacement of lamplighters but created jobs for electricians.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

Le Carré, who died last year, also developed his own colorful glossary of spy terms — pavement artists, babysitters, lamplighters and, most famously, moles.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021

In the sequel, it’s a phalanx of London lamplighters performing parkour tricks on bicycles.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

Elkins recalls a 62-year-old Ada who once, during a lecture, corrected him on the date that gas lamplighters disappeared from the streets of Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without the hired lamplighters, most of the city’s 662 whale oil streetlamps remained unlit, the surrounding areas cast into a gloomy darkness.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy