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Hardcover Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820 Book

ISBN: 0262016753

ISBN13: 9780262016759

Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820

(Part of the Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series)

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...

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