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Excellent video! Two thumbs up!

This is excellent. Thank you!

Gas light fixtures were sooty.

On the NE corner of W 211 street and Broadway in Manhattan there is the remnant of a gas street lamp You can see it on Google Not sure how it has survived

Just for fun.Does anyone remember the radio program with Big John & Sparky and The Land of Make Believe? The Gas House St Gorilla Gang was talked about.

In the 1950's in northern New Jersey we had town gas , which replaced the coal stove in the kitchen. Then a few years later natural gas came and the stove had to be converted.

Resistance to natural gand,, even today men are willing to fight for the money regardless of what is best for man kind ,( plastic waste) curse of the 20th century.

It would have been useful to say where all that coal came from.

Got up to do my nightly pee and now writing comment. Worked for a large gas utility in MASS and have always been amazed at the early years. As a meter reader I met some retirees from the old gas company and they were usually missing limbs but most retired never enjoyed retirement. That was in the late 80s and today workers get to retire. We still had drips that needed to be vacuumed because of water getting in. Still nasty as hell but there were actually people that did that every day when gas was manufactured. Also the utilities used to give the liquid away to city's and towns to keep dust under control and everyone used it. The good thing about natural gas is you would pass out and maybe sh1t yourself instead of dieing with manufactured gas. That when people use to use an oven for self deletion. In the 80s and 90s the cast iron mains were getting close to a hundred years old and I could work 24/7 from Dec to beginning of April. It allowed my family a great lifestyle and the adrenaline rush from standing infront of buildings that could go boom was great. My group never lost one but RUclips shows what could of happened. Luckily the main replacement is now been upgraded with plastic. Going to bed but will look for other videos. My city's worst fire and lots of firefighters were killed in a coal fire at the old plant

"You kids look like the Gashouse Gang!' - My father

I really don't care, all obsoleted now.

Just a little correction from early in the video : Governor Dewitt Clinton was eventually sold on the idea and secured 7 million dollars in State funding to build the canal. That's the equivalent of around $164 million. This wasn't just some scrappy underdog business guys getting this done.

This documentary struggles to get to the point. Seems like the first mention of gas is about 4 minutes in.

There used to be a coking plant alongside the Middles to Redcar railway in the UK. If you got lucky then your train would pass by as the unloading of the coke occured. It was wonderful enough during the day, at night it took on a more spectacular effect. There was also a footpath that went on the railway on the opposite side to the coke plant. It's all gone now since the closing of the blast furnaces.

Fun fact: When many homes and businesses decided to "electrify" the existing gas light infrastructure was often used... The gas lamps would be removed from the gas pipe and would be replaced with electric light fixtures. The gas pipes would be used as conduit for the circuitry.

Is barbeque coal the same as coke?

6:52 - OUCH. Someone clearly hasn't done his homework... While there could be SOME methane (aka "natural gas") in "coal gas" there was hardly any hydrogen in it, and, EXCUSE ME, where that carbon dioxide was supposed to come from? Huh? Someone CLEARLY mixed up TWO DIFFERENT processes, and two totally different "town gases", and then thrown in some mistakes for a good measure... So, the "town gas" is a pretty broad term, used for any "gas produced in/ by town gas works", but they are not all the same. That gas produced here was "coal gas" - i.e. the most volatile compounds of all volatile stuff contained in so-called bituminous coal (which is the coal people used for centuries in their stoves and latter in steam locos), and the process shown here is called "dry distillation" (or destructive distillation, aka pyrolysis). For explanation of "volatile compounds" in bituminous coal you may like to see the LMS training video for steam loco firemen, "Little & Often": ruclips.net/video/F4J2wcDP3YA/видео.html (the link is set to open at 4:10, where composition of coal is explained). Anyway, what was produced in the process described in this video above wasn't "methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen" but rather a concoction of all and sundry carbon based compounds, with varying volatility - and very few of them were actually volatile in "normal" temperature - hence the "condenser", where all these "not really that much volatile" compounds were condensed into that "coal tar" stuff (pretty smelly and nasty, TBH). Which was then either further processed (distilled) for procurement of all sort of useful chemical compounds or used "as it was" for waterproofing of building foundations (AFAIK). And these "volatile volatiles" which were still gaseous at this stage consisted mostly of lighter aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbons (aka alkenes and alkynes) plus vapours of lighter aromatic compounds like benzene and toluene (which actually made the gas suitable for "direct" lightning, i.e. by luminous flame itself), with a dash of heterocyclic compounds (like pyridine and furan, and their derivatives like benzopiridine or indole) thrown in for better flavour ;-) HOWEVER, since unsaturated hydrocarbons are rather reactive and prone to polymerisation and/or polycondensation it often lead to clogging of gas pipes, over time, with tarry goo, produced in situ by all these compounds travelling there. Also, this type of gas, while rather easy to produce, wasn't very "economical" - especially after the chemical industry developed a taste for all these valuable compounds in it, which began to be used as a feedstock for manufacturing all sort of valuable chemical products - phenol, toluene, pyridine, methanol and what not. And this is where things have changed a little (and confusion and mix-up got the author of the script of this video by the... erm, never mind) - anyway, Ladies and Gentlemen, please enter new, cleaner Town Gas! So at this time coke production was relegated to specialised "cokeries" (which produced higher grade, purer coke that this "town gas by-product") and the volatiles distilled off of "coked" coal were used either in situ to heat coke ovens, and/ or whatever was left was used as a feedstock for manufacturing all sort of organic compounds. And only THEN some of that coke was taken to Gas Works (the rest was used either for iron smelting or for heating) in all towns across the country, where it was put in special retorts, or "reactors", and heated up (by burning itself) to red-hot state and subjected to alternating "wet runs" and "dry runs". Once it got sufficiently hot the air supply was cut off and dry steam was pushed through the red-hot coal (coke) bed, and yes, this reaction produced carbon monoxide (MONOXIDE, NOT "dioxide!) and hydrogen: C + H2O -> CO + H2 But since this process is endothermic (i.e. uses energy instead of producing it) the wet run lasted only couple of minutes (3--4 minutes if memory serves me, maybe even less than that) and when the coal bed cooled a little the wet run was cut and replaced by dry run - i.e. the air was let back in, and it restarted normal burning of the coke, which lead to it reheating itself again sufficiently (which took twice or so as long, AFAIR) to be subjected to another wet run - and so da capo al fine. THIS "town gas" was a different animal altogether - it had a very high "energy density" and did not produce that tarry goo in pipes, but at the same time was pretty dangerous - VERY toxic because of carbon monoxide and very "explosive" when mixed with air (in case of gas leak) since hydrogen when mixed with air produces explosive mixtures with VERY wide "percentage range" of it. (Uncle Google says _explosive range of hydrogen is from 18.3% to 59%_ and _the flammability limits of hydrogen in air are very wide, from 4% to 75%_ - and who am I to question his knowledge or challenge his authority, right?) Also, as the flame of this "CO + H2" town gas was almost invisible, very pale blue, to use it for direct street lightning benzene vapours had be admixed to it - or a lamp has to be fitted with so-called Auer mantle/ jacket (after the Austrian inventor of it, Carl Auer) - or just "gas mantle" (what a lack of respect...) - but since this is the subject for another lecture, I'll end it here. So "now you know". Yeah, tad long, I agree - but then if you find it too long or just plain boring, just skip it altogether. And I should probably say that right at the beginning, but hey, "better late than never" as my auntie used to say whenever she was late for a train ;-)

Very good. --Doozer

yet coke was still needed in large quantities so maybe the coke plants survived?

So Stanley used a GERMAN generator... right there, it's evident that this history is missing a LOT of what actually happened in that era. Not a single word about Jonas Wenström and Michail Dolivo-Dobrovolskij, who independently developed the three line, three phase system that is in actually used world wide. Galileo Ferraris, who's scientific papers regarding asynchronous machines publicly was credited by Tesla as the foundations for his own inventions in the field also is sorely lacking any mention. Stanley is credited as the inventor of the transformer, but nothing about the fact he was employed by Westinghouse to come up with an alternative construction to the patent held by the Hungarians Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri in order to circumvent the patent option for the same invention held by Edison. For those interested in the full story, I can recommend the channel "Kathy loves Physics and History". This video here does give a lot of otherwise little known details, so still well worth the watch.

Some has to be outside for not kink the plastic 😅 when start tie in

I ran an Army chow hall on Fort Drum during this storm. Soldier cooks worked the Volunteer Fire Departments to provide food and warming beverages to our community. Myself, what was a normal 11 mile drive to Fort Drum became a 35-45 mile jaunt due to downed lines and trees. The North Country truly pulled together to get over this. Now retired in Central Texas, I am reminded of this disaster when I see an Asplundh service truck on the road. Their crews were part of the Huge effort to bring back normalcy to the affected areas. Speaking for my Soldiers, we are proud to provide support to our adopted community.

Any link of more such videos?

GE actually beat Westinghouse to AC development by running Edison out of the company and building an AC hydroelectric plant located in Pelzer SC that went online in 1894. It is still in operation today. CP Steinmetz was the true genius of AC and the reason for GEs success.

With today tech could manufacture gas make a come back

You mentioned George Westinghouse in passing. I believe he had a lot more to do with the success of AC distribution than Tesla.

And AC was adopted for many good reasons.. The transformer was the clincher for the switch to AC for mains power... DC had limited use for mains power but would go on to be used in appropriate applications... Lollll lollll lollll One of the small towns in Gippsland Victoria SO close to the main coal fired power plants was the last town to get power.... Can anyone say ironic.....😉

If only they new that the Marcellus Shale Gas Field was right beneath their feet !

We even had some thieves come to a lone farm and inform them they were going to have to tske their generator for national defense, the farmer pointed a rifle at them and told them they were in the United States and ran them off.

My wife and I wete right in the middle of the storm. We lived Gouvernour in npff post housing, I couldnt get to work at Ft. Drum, our daughter was 2 yrs old at the time. We finally had to leave and go to a shelter on Ft. Drum, Ny. We survived it and now we are prepared in central Kansas cause we have ice storms here too. We bpught a generator as well.

Amazing documentary! The Power of Nature...and an amazing example of brilliant and organized minds and TEAM WORK!!!

Interesting how we don't mention the pollution the tar caused.

My English Victorian Grandfather was born in 1884. He lived in a village called Dent. The village didn't receive electric ⚡ power until the 1960s! Imagine that? I have a genuine working 1929 Edison Light Bulb (91 years old and like the one in the film), which was manufactured to mark the 50th Anniversary of Electric Light. The Carbon Filament Light Bulb is mounted on a wooden base, and has wax insulation of the conductors on the underside. Electrical connection is via two metal thumb screws. As the bulb operates at around 110 volts, it's safe, as long as you don't touch the connectors! ⚡⚡⚡😂😂😂

On a hot day, all we think is "AC" means Air Conditioning : )

I had the privilege of knowing Charlie Moser. He was a true gentleman who was always willing to share his knowledge.

Many thanks. It was a long slog.

Thanks for the video from someone who lives in the affected area... 10 days without power for me.. What I remember most was how people stuck together and helped each other... Everyone knew how the other felt because we were all in the same boat...

Awesome

Check out Joseph Swan the first person to electricly light his home and public buildings with the light bulb he invented! His strong patent forced Edison to form a partnership in the UK and her dominions. Resulting in Edison Swan light bulbs, Ediswan. This could be the patent Edison used “Carbon filament in a vacuum”? However Swans initial light bulbs were low resistance and required high currents Edisons bamboo was an improvement..