Pedestrian push button in Ultimo, NSW.
We nicked this image from the Powerhouse Museum Photo of the Day Blog.
This was snapped by a former Powerhouse photographer, Andrew Frolows, to accompany this article explaining ‘push button for traffic signals’
“In the early 1980s Sydney consultants Nielsen Design Associates were asked to redesign the device. The new unit was made from cast aluminium with vandal-proof fixings. The large magnetic button (tested to withstand millions of pushes) is easy to find and push. A Braille arrow on the vibrating plate indicates the direction to cross.”
Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
