Talk:History of manufactured fuel gases

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Why on earth are utterly archaic, if contemporary chemical terms used in this article? Even with their translation, they offer nothing advantageous- a far more adequate form would be "hydrogen sulfide (then referred to as...)". Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.185.177.166 (talk) 21:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

"no town with population less than 50,000 was without gaslight. Five years later, there were only two towns over 10,000 that were without gaslight.[8]"

That's backwards ?? you mean :

"no town with population MORE than 50,000 was without gaslight. Five years later, there were only two towns UNDER 10,000 that were without gaslight.[8]"

190.191.39.49 (talk) 00:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

After reading the condenser section I do not still know what was its function, to condense hydrogen gas to liquid? And, how was "gas" pumped and distributed to its destinations? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.202.215.218 (talk) 12:07, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Outline

I proposed the following outline for this article:

1. Precursors

2. Invention and development

2.1 Lebon and the Thermolamp

2.2 Murdock and Boulton & Watt

2.3 Winsor and the Gas Light and Coke Company

3. Manufactured gas 1815-1850

4. Manufactured gas 1850-1900

5. The transition to natural gas

6. The legacy of manufactured gas

7. Modern coal gasification

The outline needs sub-points for 3 and 4, but I think we can do that once we get there.

--Bwwm (talk) 12:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Looks interesting. Be sure to provide citations for the content.--ragesoss (talk) 01:35, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Certainly. I'll get to that once I've finished the article. --Bwwm (talk) 01:38, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

This outline is great, though I've already deviated from it quite a bit.

I've been reading some of the public domain literature on manufactured gas - and there's enough in there for nearly an entire WikiProject on it - this was a gigantic industry back in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries - quite interesting, too, from a nerdy standpoint, IMHO. Sheesh...it would probably take at least a few decades of work - if not a few lifetimes of work - to really do a full survey of the breadth and the depth of the subject - much of which seems to be previously lost to public consciousness prior to Google Book Search. For now, I'm going to insert a section on the machinery of gas manufacture (specifically coal gas manufacture); I've already inserted a table of the "types of manufactured gasses" - well, the major types at least - not counting such obscure ones as "Doppelgas" and "Mond gas". Though I'm not doing inline citations at this point, I am working from reliable sources - two of which have been placed in the "Notes and References" section.

At one point, this really was the "future of the past", and it deserves a good section in WP.Katana0182 (talk) 05:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Undiscussed rename

This is why we discuss renames before just going ahead and moving them. We have an article on History of manufactured gas which is now at History of gaseous fuel. Yet it ignores natural gas, which is the most important gaseous fuel - let alone others, such as LPG, CNG or hydrogen. The original name wasn't perfect (it was about manufactured fuel gases), but the new name is dreadful - now seriously inaccurate. Nor should we change the scope of the article (which is an appropriate and historically significant scope) in favour of a grab-bag article, just to match an arbitrary choice of name.

So, what should we move this article to next? History of manufactured gas? History of manufactured fuel gas? Or something better? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:59, 6 February 2018 (UTC)