13 Facts About Gas lighting

Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, coal gas or natural gas.

When gas lighting was prevalent, the most common fuels for gas lighting were wood gas, coal gas and, in limited cases, water gas.

Gas lighting now is frequently used for camping, for which the high energy density of the hydrocarbon fuel, combined with the modular nature of canisters on which camping lights are built, allows for bright and long lasting light to be produced without complex equipment.

Gas lighting would go on to identify several types of gases, including carbon dioxide.

Gas lighting worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watt at their Soho Foundry steam engine works in Birmingham, England.

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Gas lighting's experiments were numerous and accurate and made upon a variety of substances; having obtained the gas from wood, peat, different kinds of coal, oil, wax, etc.

In England, the first place outside London to have gas lighting was Preston, Lancashire, in 1816; this was due to the Preston Gaslight Company run by revolutionary Joseph Dunn, who found the most improved way of brighter gas lighting.

Gas lighting technology was then installed in just about every major theatre in the world.

Gas lighting was brought into the building by "miles of rubber tubing from outlets in the floor called 'water joints'" which "carried the gas to border-lights and wing lights".

Some largest installations of gas lighting were in large auditoriums, like the Theatre de Chatelet, built in 1862.

In some cities, gas lighting is preserved or restored as a vintage nostalgic feature to support the historic atmosphere of their historic centres.

Gas lighting is seeing a resurgence in the luxury home market for those in search of historical authenticity.

Gas lighting lights operate in parts of the famed French Quarter and outside historic homes throughout the city in New Orleans.