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Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 07:12
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 07:12
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On 2018-05-02, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: >> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: > >> Compare the outdoor gas lights that were popular a few years ago, which >> were always on. > > Like pilot lights, I was told they too only used a miniscule amount > of gas and thus could be left on at all times. > > City streetlights years ago required a lamplighter to go around > and light them every evening. > > It's hard to believe today massive gas works were built to manufacture > gas which back then was used just for lighting. During and after WWII, there were people employed to go around to check on people's gas usage, they would switch on the gas appliences to check that there was enough for a glimmer of flame. They were ther because there was adanger that if people used the last of the gas, oxygen would get into the gas lines and be dangerous. The man who told me that had a hazy memory, we were sitting in a bar waiting for things to quieten down. so details could be wrong. He said that the men doing that were universally hated and called 'The Glimmer men'. One of the reasons for whale hunting in the 19th century was that street lighting was usuall powered by whale oil. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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