Progressive enlightenment : the origins of the gaslight industry, 1780-1820 /

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An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation.In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomory, Leslie, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Colección:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Temas:
James Watt and Company (Birmingham, England)
Gas-lighting > Great Britain > History.
Gas light fixtures industry > Great Britain > History.
Distillation > Research > Europe > History.
Industrial revolution > Europe.
Éclairage au gaz > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Lampes à gaz > Industrie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Distillation > Recherche > Europe > Histoire.
Révolution industrielle > Europe.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Gas light fixtures industry
Gas-lighting
Industrial revolution
Gasbeleuchtung
Gasbeleuchtung.
Gaswirtschaft.
Industriella revolutionen.
Gasbelysning > Historia > Storbritannien.
Europe
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Großbritannien.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The roots of gas lighting
  • Gas lighting and pneumatic chemistry
  • Industrial distillation
  • A question of scale
  • Boulton & Watt
  • Building a network
  • Frederick Winsor and the national light and heat company
  • The gas light and coke company
  • Conclusion.

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