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E-book A Prometheus on a Human Scale – Ignacy Lukasiewicz

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In nostra terra. From the temple of eternal fire to the Zglenicki platform. Unwritten masterpieces. And this is what Poland is. From Ko?ciuszko’s home-land. Carnival in the colour of blood. The conspirators from the “Hotel pod Luftmaszyn?.” How can we doubt the good results... A manuscript under a lucky star. Studies – the most urgent intention of all. There will be no white spirit. We distill! I need lamps for this and that – one of these and one of those. The work of Ignacy ?ukasiewicz is one of those phenomena of history which made Poland the heart of Europe and the “centre of the world” in a no less symbolic way? In the middle of the night of the world, precisely in the middle of the 19th century AD, Ignacy ?ukasiewicz switched on the light which instantly conquered the whole globe? Thus, he initiated the history of crude oil in the history of human civilisation, the development of methods of its extraction, its distribution into individual fractions and its widespread use?The mass use of kerosene in the lamp of his construction, on the other hand, already at the end of the 19th century, transformed into the stage of turbu-lent development of the internal combustion engine?It was Ignacy ?ukasiewicz, a pharmacist from pharmacies in Gorlice, Jas?o and Brzostek located in Lesser Poland – a geographical district within the realm of Cracow – the future world’s first sheikh, not much more than 150 years ago, who commissioned a local craftsman to make a lamp of his own design for everyday use, in which the wick immersed in kerosene could burn and shine with an even, regulated, calm and safe light according to the owner’s will? A lamp in which the fire of burning kerosene distilled from petroleum, which had hitherto been despised by science and chemistry as a wild mustang, for the first time in the history of human civilisation surren-dered toman?8Because it was Ignacy ?ukasiewicz who not only immersed people in the element of open fire, which had not yet been tamed by man, but also connected it with the phenomenon of crude oil, which so far had seem-ingly been somewhat useless, rather tedious, dangerous and taking land away from people? Surprisingly shrouded in the fumes of poisonous, gas-eous vapours above the bogs and puddles of stinking slurry? Fascinating with fiery fountains? An astonishing view of distant, mysterious night-time fireflies based on legends, myths full of ghosts and spells, mighty gods and titans? When this pharmacist from Polish Subcarpathia tamed this unpredict-able monster, he himself experienced its paroxysms. During his experiments with oil distillation in his laboratory, explosions often took place. One such explosion permanently burned hisbrow

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No. Panggil

609 FRA a

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Switzerland : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

300 hlm

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English

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9783631801062

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609

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text

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computer

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online resource

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History of Invention of Technology

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