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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tomory, Leslie, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
James Watt and Company (Birmingham, England)
Gasbelysning > Historia > Storbritannien.
Industriella revolutionen.
Gaswirtschaft.
Gasbeleuchtung.
Gasbeleuchtung
Industrial revolution.
Gas-lighting.
Gas light fixtures industry.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
Revolution industrielle > Europe.
Distillation > Recherche > Europe > Histoire.
Lampes à gaz > Industrie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Éclairage au gaz > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Industrial revolution > Europe.
Distillation > Research > Europe > History.
Gas light fixtures industry > Great Britain > History.
Gas-lighting > Great Britain > History.
Grossbritannien.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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