Contents. Preface. 1. History of gases - Introduction. 2. From Aristotle to the birth of modern chemistry. 3. The industrial gases background. 4. The industrial gas technology development. 5. The industrial gas business development. 6. The industrial gas business expansion. 7. How new gas applications developed. Index.
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"This 450-page pastiche of well-researched and well-documented
vignettes, anecdotes, thumbnail sketches, and priceless
illustrations and drawings is, as advertised, a marvelous excursion
into the history of industrial gases. Embedded between the end
papers of what might at first seem only to interest a precious few
specialists are the essence of stories on hydrogen, including
lighter-than-air craft and ballooning; dry ice and refrigeration;
acetylene and illumination; gaslight and limelight; noble gases and
the quest for absolute zero; industrial helium, superconductivity,
and superfluidity; cutting and welding; rocket fuels, buzz bombs,
and space travel; cryogenics, cyngas, and LPG. On and on. An
impressive scientific and engineering retrospective... References
are properly annotated, accurately displayed, and well represented;
illustrations are appropriate and often original; the engineering
drawings are more than window dressing. Empedocles and Paracelsus
would be pleased... Put this in your library. It's a gas! Summing
up: Essential."
(L.W. Fine, Columbia University in Choice, December 2003)
"Almqvist's book is a tour de force, which gives insight, not only
into the historical development of the gas production industries,
but also in new technologies, such as gas welding and cutting,
rocket propulsion, biological and medical applications. In addition
the author lets us meet the scientists and entrepreneurs whose worl
lies behind all this. A well researched book in the best tradition
of the Newcomen Society."
(Jan Hault)
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