History of the gas industry

Key events in the history of the gas industry in Poland and Europe.
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1868
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.

1885
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.

1896
Natural gas discovered in the Podkarpacie region
The beginnings of natural gas in Poland are connected to crude oil extraction in the Podkarpacie region.
Władysław Szaynok i Marian Wieleżyński
Gas industry today and tomorrow
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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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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Can the condition of underground steel piping be tested without expensive ground work? This is made possible by the application of dedicated detectors and contactless magnetometric defectoscopy.
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