Gas lighting  

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Gas lighting refers to a technology used to produce light from gas, usually methane, but also including hydrogen and ethylene. Throughout the nineteenth century and into the first decades of the twentieth, the gas was manufactured by the gasification of coal. In the latter years of the nineteenth century, natural gas began to replace coal gas, first in the US, and then in other parts of the world. In the UK, coal gas was used until after the Second World War.

Before electricity became sufficiently widespread and economical to allow for general public use, gas was the most popular means of lighting in cities and suburbs. Early gas lights had to be lit manually but soon gas lights could light themselves.

May refer to

Gaslight may refer to:

• Gas lighting, the use of flammable gas such as natural gas as a light source
• Gaslighting, a form of psychological abuse coined as a reference to two similar films of the same name:
  • Gaslight (1940 film), directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, and Frank Pettingell
  • Gaslight (1944 film), directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer
  • Gas Light (1938) the Patrick Hamilton stage play upon which the films were based
• Gaslight Tavern, a club in Lawrence, Kansas with history from the beat through the post-hippy eras
• The Gaslight Cafe, a club in Greenwich Village in New York, where among others Bob Dylan has played
  • "Live at the Gaslight 1962", a CD of ten Bob Dylan performances at the Gaslight cafe, released in 2005.
• "Gaslight", a 1967 song by Toronto Ontario Canada based band the Ugly Ducklings.
• "Gaslight", a 1979 song by the Dead Kennedys
• "Gaslighting Abbie", a 2000 song by Steely Dan
• Gaslight (rock), a Canadian touring rock group of the 1970's
• Gaslight (automobile), a defunct American automobile company (1960-cira 1961)

See also

• Blau gas
• Carbide lamp
• Gaslaternen-Freilichtmuseum Berlin, an outdoor gas lantern museum in Berlin
• Limelight
• List of light sources
• Sewer gas destructor lamp
• Thomas Thorp
• Tilley lamp