Przemysł gazowniczy we Lwowie w latach 1856–1914: przyczynek do dziejów industrializacji miasta
Gas industry in Lviv in 1856–1914: a contribution to the history of the city’s industrialisation

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses the installation of gas lighting in the urban space of Lviv, together with the construction and later modernisations of the city’s gasworks. The history of gas industry in Lviv is characterised by social and economic phenomena similar to those of other Austro-Hungarian and German cities (conflicts between the investor, municipal government, and gas consumers, communalisation of the gasworks). What distinguishes the gas supply system of Lviv from those of other cities was the use of non-standard resources to gas production (wood, and then petroleum oils), and a relatively late rise in production (after 1898), resulting from the increased availability of gas to both the city, and private users.

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