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

by Leslie Tomory

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016753
• ISBN13: 9780262016759
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher