It was a requirement for areas of public performances to have an independantly supplied lighting circuit, and gas lamps were often used for this. I recall gas lamps in Reading Town Hall into the mid 1970's as the independantly supplied lighting, which were turned on during performances.
It did. It took everything off the floor it wanted to take.
I'm fairly sure the carbon amplifier was around in Nipkov's time.
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Paraffin I presume.
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Just had a look at the Calor website. It appears they started distributing bottled gas in 1935. Don't know if they had any early competitors.
For many years prior to public gas supplies a lot of larger private houses had acetylene gas generators. These would generate gas on demand rather than storing large quantities of gas. Generally it was used only for lighting.
No he was German and the name was Grinder.
A cousin of Axel Weight
After the 1973 power outages, the Tower Hotel at St Catherine's Dock in London fitted emergency gas lights at various points in the hotel - made by Veritas.
I always wondered why it was such a s***ty hotel.
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