Progressive Enlightenment : The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820 /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.


