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These proceedings cover all the presentations from the two day event which was guided by a team of industry gurus, bringing you a broad range of highly topical papers that addressed all of the different aspects to do with the latest developments and technologies that you need to know about in order to stay at the top of your game within this continuously developing market.

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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 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.

Gas-lighting --- Gas light fixtures industry --- Distillation --- Industrial revolution --- History. --- Research --- James Watt and Company (Birmingham, England) --- History --- Distillation -- Research -- Europe -- History. --- Gas light fixtures industry -- Great Britain -- History. --- Gas-lighting -- Great Britain -- History. --- Industrial revolution -- Europe. --- James Watt and Company (Birmingham, England). --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Chemical Engineering --- Rectification of spirits --- Boulton & Watt (Birmingham, England) --- Watt (James) and Company, Birmingham, Eng. --- Soho Manufactory --- Soho Works --- Watt and Company (Birmingham, England) --- Jacques Watt & Co. (Birmingham, England) --- Separation (Technology) --- Liquors --- Building fittings industry --- Lighting --- Research&delete& --- E-books --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science --- Gas-lighting - Great Britain - History --- Gas light fixtures industry - Great Britain - History --- Distillation - Research - Europe - History --- Industrial revolution - Europe

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Electricité --- Elektriciteit --- Gasindustrie --- Industrie du gaz --- Législation --- Wetgeving --- Power resources --- Ressources énergétiques --- Law and legislation --- Codes --- Droit --- 351.824.11 <493> --- BE / Belgium - België - Belgique --- 347.70 --- 347.80 --- 338.753.2 --- 338.732 --- Reglementering i.v.m. gas, electriciteit, water. Nucleaire reglementering. Reglementering i.v.m. energiebeleid.--België --- Handelsrecht: algemene werken en handboeken. --- Industrieel recht. --- Elektrische energie. --- Gas. --- 351.824.11 <493> Reglementering i.v.m. gas, electriciteit, water. Nucleaire reglementering. Reglementering i.v.m. energiebeleid.--België --- Ressources énergétiques --- Electric utilities --- Gas --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Coal-gas --- Illuminating gas --- Producer gas --- Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous --- Coal-tar products --- Distillation, Destructive --- Electric companies --- Electric light and power industry --- Electric power industry --- Electric industries --- Public utilities --- Elektrische energie --- Handelsrecht: algemene werken en handboeken --- Industrieel recht --- Codes.