The history of world house numbers

The history behind house numbers is interesting and complicated, and people may not realize its importance, but in fact, it deserves more attention, because these useful door numbers and letters provide important information for people to find specific locations. In June 1925, an article about the house number was published. The author of this article is very familiar with house numbers and reveals the logic and history of house numbers in the article.

 

 

The logic behind the house number:

The logic behind the different metal house letters is to help people find a place faster and more accurately, which is very important in some large cities, because it is difficult for you to find a place without a house number in a particularly large area. Some people may think that if every house has its own name, this problem can be solved, but in this case, there will be many houses with the same name, and the housing number will help to sort out the number of houses.

 

 

How to number the house?

Because different streets have different numbers of houses, sometimes we will notice that the apartment door numbers and letters of houses on one side of the street is even, while the number on the other side is odd. The principle of this layout is also very simple. If all houses on one side are numbered in sequence, then the houses on the other side can't be numbered, or need to be re-planned and sorted out. Therefore, the outdoor letters for house on the street is ascending even number and ascending odd number.

 

Then, where does the first letters for address signs begin and end? Each housing numbering system has a starting point or a baseline, which is the simplest and most commonly used way to systematically manage houses. You can choose the north-south city boundary as the baseline and then number the letters for house signs for north-south streets, or you can choose the east-west city boundary as the baseline. When the city expands or the city boundary changes, you should number the east-west streets. For example, there are 111 main roads in New York, and First Avenue is based on the Hudson River and the United Nations. Then all the streets east of Fifth Avenue are considered to be the east, while all the streets in the west will be labeled as the west.

 

Another method to manage front door numbers and letters is to take some business districts as the center points, then select two baselines to create a quadrant, and then distinguish the streets in different quadrants. This layout can work by naming or numbering each quadrant.

 

No matter which method is used to number house numbers and mailboxes, the key of any housing numbering system is to be simple and unified, so that tourists and new citizens can easily understand the layout of the city. In addition, in areas where routes are reasonably planned, services such as mail or transportation will become more efficient. Most importantly, in emergency situations, such as when firefighters and nursing staff need to find a specific place, the house address numbers and letters become particularly important. Because not wasting a second may mean death.

 

There is a major safety problem with outdoor house numbers and letters, that is, people can't find these numbers at night, but with the development of improved technology, people have produced number signs that can reflect light, which can obviously improve the visibility of signs at night. No matter what kind of signs you want, Wenzhou Zhongwang Hardware can customize them according to your needs.