Author: Friedrich Christian ACCUM
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light ... Second edition
Author: Friedrich Christian ACCUM
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A practical treatise on gaslight
Author: Friedrich Christian A. Accum
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Category : Candles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Category : Candles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Progressive Enlightenment
Author: Leslie Tomory
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262016753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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 network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a designation usually given to the railways. He shows how the first gas network was constructed and stabilized through the introduction of new management structures, the use of technical controls, and the application of means to constrain the behavior of the users of gas lighting. Tomory begins by describing the contributions of pneumatic chemistry and industrial distillation to the development of gas lighting, then explores the bifurcation between the Continental and British traditions in distillation technology. He examines the establishment and consolidation of the new industry by the Birmingham firm Boulton & Watt, and describes the deployment of the network strategy by the entrepreneur Frederick Winsor. Tomory argues that the gas industry represented a new wave of technological innovation in industry because of its dependence on formal scientific research, its need for large amounts of capital, and its reliance on business organization beyond small firms and partnerships--all of which signaled a departure from the artisanal nature and limited deployment of inventions earlier in the Industrial Revolution. Gas lighting was the first important realization of the Enlightenment dream of science in the service of industry.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262016753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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 network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a designation usually given to the railways. He shows how the first gas network was constructed and stabilized through the introduction of new management structures, the use of technical controls, and the application of means to constrain the behavior of the users of gas lighting. Tomory begins by describing the contributions of pneumatic chemistry and industrial distillation to the development of gas lighting, then explores the bifurcation between the Continental and British traditions in distillation technology. He examines the establishment and consolidation of the new industry by the Birmingham firm Boulton & Watt, and describes the deployment of the network strategy by the entrepreneur Frederick Winsor. Tomory argues that the gas industry represented a new wave of technological innovation in industry because of its dependence on formal scientific research, its need for large amounts of capital, and its reliance on business organization beyond small firms and partnerships--all of which signaled a departure from the artisanal nature and limited deployment of inventions earlier in the Industrial Revolution. Gas lighting was the first important realization of the Enlightenment dream of science in the service of industry.
Journal of Gas Lighting and Water Supply
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Catalogue of Science and Technology, No
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Laying and Repairing of Electric Telegraph Cables
Author: Otto Valdemar Hoskiær
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Category : Cables, Submarine
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Datennetz, digitales Vermittlungsnetz, digitales Netz.
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Category : Cables, Submarine
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Datennetz, digitales Vermittlungsnetz, digitales Netz.
Electrical Tables and Formulæ
Author: Latimer Clark
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Journal of Chemical Education
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Includes Report of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, and Proceedings of the Pacific Southwest Association of Chemistry Teachers.
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Includes Report of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, and Proceedings of the Pacific Southwest Association of Chemistry Teachers.