Virtual Gas Museum

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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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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An accidental visitor to a traditional gasworks will see a tangle of pipes, some baffling geometrically-shaped installations and mystifying devices. Such a gas plant resembles an octopus with a thousand tentacles, which has crawled out of the canal at the edge of the city. What happens inside this tangle of pipes? What are the mysterious towers for?

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What is the (gas) object?

Gas production in a classic gas plant

The gaseous soul of home

Kitchen with gas

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

Zygmunt Lewakowski

Zygmunt Lewakowski - he was a Polish economist, Minister of the Treasury, described as a billionaire, a man whose bold visions were ahead of the era in which he lived.

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Gas street lamps in Europe

In many European cities gas lamps are still an interesting, well exposed tourist attraction.

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Podcast: The history of gasworks in the Polish lands and their new life

The history of gasworks in the Polish lands is a story about the economic development of a nation and the striving for the modernity of Polish homes.

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Stoves and cookers

Less gas in the gas, that is about regulators, i.e. the guardians of pressure and...our wallets

Installed in gas stations or gas connections, regulators constantly watch over the pressure in our home gas systems, thanks to which our gas meters measure the consumed gas correctly!

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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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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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