Virtual Gas Museum

Gas equipment manufacturers were faced with a considerable problem – how to persuade people who were used to cooking on coal and lighting their homes with candles to use appliances powered by a new, previously unknown fuel?

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These silent companions of our daily lives are also evocative of global civilizational changes. Although today we associate stoves, heaters and refrigerators with electricity, in the 19th century they were powered by … gas. The introduction of these appliances to people’s homes heralded a lifestyle revolution that continues to this day.

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The birth of modern cities was illuminated by gas light. The new source of light introduced many changes to the domestic and social life of their residents. Although gas lighting was ultimately swallowed up by the darkness of history, it is still possible to encounter traces of its former glory.

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Gas hair curling irons with burners

Bathroom water heater

Gas lamps and Welsbach mantle

Token gas meter

Key events in the history of the gas industry in Poland and Europe.

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First bath heated with a gas water heater

This appliance is invented by an Englishman, Benjamin Waddy Maughan. Gas begins to find multiple new applications, and inventions include gas cookers, refrigerators, irons, coffee roasters, boilers, gas heaters and many more.

Gas light gains new brightness and colour

This is a clever invention of Carl Auer von Welsbach – a fabric mantle, made from cotton mesh impregnated with non-flammable compounds, which when heated by a gas flame emits a bright light without burning. This invention continues to be used today.

Natural gas discovered in the Podkarpacie region

The beginnings of natural gas in Poland are connected to crude oil extraction in the Podkarpacie region.

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biography

Hugo Junkers

For 120 years, the name of Hugo Junkers has been synonymous with a practical bathroom water heater.

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History of Lviv Gasworks

The Lviv gasworks was one of the oldest in this part of Europe.

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Warsaw’s street gas lamps

Visitors to the Polish capital can still chance upon the original historical street lanterns powered by gas. They burn with a real flame, which despite not being overly intensive and bright, is able to create a unique and mysterious atmosphere.

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Stoves and cookers

Gas cooker

Plans and charts

Design of the V800 gas holder

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Technology

Non-mining methane production methods

Mines are not the only sources of natural gas: the fuel can be produced by chemical or biological synthesis.

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Technology

UAVs and satellites to monitor gas pipelines

The latest technologies applied in gas engineering include novel monitoring solutions for the natural gas transmission and distribution infrastructure. Gas pipelines are linear projects which sometimes stretch for hundreds of kilometres, so their inspection with an “eye in the sky” seems a natural solution. It can be done with UAVs and satellites.

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Optical fibre applications for gas pipeline diagnostics

Optical fibre measurements are applied in many areas of engineering. Optical fibres can help detect and pinpoint gas leaks. They can also be applied in strain measurement of gas pipelines.

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