Virtual Gas Museum

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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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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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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Gas irons

Gas advertisements

Gas burners and their types

Gas cookers

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

William Murdoch

Son of a Scottish miller, who chased the darkness out of cities.

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A postcard from half a century ago – the operation of a traditional gasworks

Together with Adam Król, the retired curator of the Gasworks Museum in Paczków and former manager of the Municipal Gasworks in the town, we return to those times, trying to recreate the operation of former gas plants and their employees.

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Industrial facilities

Fireless locomotive

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Technology

Pre-paid systems in gas distribution. Is a pre-paid gas meter worth the money?

When we think of pre-paid billing solutions, cell phones come first to mind. However, pre-paid solutions for electrical power distribution have been around for several years now. The time has come for pre-paid distribution of natural gas to consumers.

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