83-738: Land Administration Building is a heritage-listed former government building at 142 George Street , Brisbane City , City of Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. It was designed by Thomas Pye and built from 1899 to 1905 by Arthur Midson for the Queensland Government . It was also known as the Executive Building or (now) the Old Executive Building. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The building
166-458: A Manchester cotton mill in 1806. In 1901, studies of the defoliant effect of leaking gas pipes led to the discovery that ethylene is a plant hormone . Throughout the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th, the gas was manufactured by the gasification of coal. Later in the 19th century, natural gas began to replace coal gas, first in the US, and then in other parts of the world. In
249-443: A bladder … and tied close, may be carried away, and kept some days, and being afterwards pressed gently through a small pipe into the flame of a candle, will take fire, and burn at the end of the pipe as long as the bladder is gently pressed to feed the flame, and when taken from the candle after it is so lighted, it will continue burning till there is no more air left in the bladder to supply the flame." Lowther had basically discovered
332-442: A course of lectures on chemistry , at Manchester , in which he showed the mode of producing gas from coal, and the facility and advantage of its use. Dr Henry analysed the composition and investigated the properties of carburetted hydrogen gas (i.e. methane). His experiments were numerous and accurate and made upon a variety of substances; having obtained the gas from wood, peat , different kinds of coal, oil, wax, etc., he quantified
415-697: A factory for the production of lighting gas was constructed near the Obvodny Canal , using pit coal brought in by ship from Cardiff ; and 204 gas lamps were ceremonially lit in St. Petersburg on 27 September 1839. Over the next 10 years, their numbers almost quadrupled, to reach 800. By the middle of the 19th century, the central streets and buildings of the capital were illuminated: the Palace Square , Bolshaya and Malaya Morskaya streets, Nevsky and Tsarskoselsky Avenues, Passage Arcade, Noblemen's Assembly,
498-500: A gas lighting with copper apparatuses and chandeliers of ink , brass and crystal , reportedly one of the first such public installations of gas lighting in the region, enhanced as a triumphal arch for the city gate for a royal visit of Charles XIV John of Sweden in 1820. By 1823, numerous towns and cities throughout Britain were lit by gas. Gas light cost up to 75% less than oil lamps or candles, which helped to accelerate its development and deployment. By 1859, gas lighting
581-501: A gas-filled bladder attached to a jet. He would use this to walk home at night. After seeing how well this worked he decided to light his home with gas. In 1797, Murdoch installed gas lighting in his new home as well as the workshop in which he worked. “This work was of a large scale, and he next experimented to find better ways of producing, purifying, and burning the gas.” The foundation had been laid for companies to start producing gas and other inventors to start playing with ways of using
664-428: A method for purifying coal gas by means of the chemical action of ammoniacal gas. Another plan was devised by Reuben Phillips, of Exeter , who patented the purification of coal gas by the use of dry lime . G. Holworthy, in 1818, patented a method of purifying it by passing the gas, in a highly condensed state, through iron retorts heated to a dark red. In 1820, Swedish inventor Johan Patrik Ljungström had developed
747-402: A much brighter light than natural gas or water gas . Illuminating gas was much less toxic than other forms of coal gas, but less could be produced from a given quantity of coal. The experiments with distilling coal were described by John Clayton in 1684. George Dixon's pilot plant exploded in 1760, setting back the production of illuminating gas a few years. The first commercial application was in
830-673: A particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. The Lands Administration Building has a strong and special association with the role and prestige of government, being an integral member of the most prominent, important and cohesive group of government buildings in Queensland. The building has a special association with Queensland Executive government for nearly seven decade and with important Queensland architect Thomas Pye, being one of his major works. [REDACTED] This Misplaced Pages article incorporates text from "The Queensland heritage register" published by
913-493: A performance, or having to light each candle individually. "It was easier to light a row of gas jets than a greater quantity of candles high in the air." Theatres also no longer needed to worry about wax dripping on the actors during a show. Gas lighting also had an effect on the actors. As the stage was brighter, they could now use less make-up and their motions did not have to be as exaggerated. Half-lit stages had become fully lit stages. Production companies were so impressed with
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#1732773076771996-548: A separate entrance in George Street was designed for ministerial access. A £ 2,900 contract for site preparation and foundations was commenced in 1899, and in 1901 the principal construction contract for £ 141,000 was let to Brisbane builder Arthur Midson. The use of expanded metal lathing as a re-enforcement to the concrete floors and ceilings was amongst the earliest application of such technology in Australia, and
1079-473: A series of explosions, killing one woman and injuring 38 other people. The damage to buildings in George Street and neighbouring streets as well as roads and other infrastructure was estimated at $ 500,000. George Street has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: The Queen's Wharf development of an entertainment precinct will be bounded by Queen Street , George Street, Alice Street and
1162-684: A site bounded by George Street, Stephens Lane, William Street and Queens Gardens . The form and scale of the building complement the Treasury Building and the Old State Library located nearby. It forms the southeastern edge of the important group of government buildings surrounding Queens Gardens, which also includes the Family Services Building and the William Street retaining wall . The building
1245-416: A strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. The Lands Administration Building has a strong and special association with the role and prestige of government, being an integral member of the most prominent, important and cohesive group of government buildings in Queensland. The place has a special association with the life or work of
1328-682: A variety of forms and with great brilliance at the front of his factory in Birmingham. In 1808 he constructed an apparatus, applicable for several uses, for Benjamin Cooke , a manufacturer of brass tubes, gilt toys, and other articles. In 1808, Murdoch presented to the Royal Society a paper entitled "Account of the Application of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes" in which he described his successful application of coal gas to light
1411-542: A weatherboard, low-ceilinged cottage, was built on George Street. The building remained intact into the 1880s but like similar early houses in the central business district they have been demolished and the land redeveloped. In 1867, the Menzies Private Hotel was established at 28 George Street (corner of Margaret Street and adjacent to the Queensland Club ). It was refurbished and re-opened as
1494-586: Is a major street located in the Brisbane CBD in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. George Street extends from the Queensland University of Technology's Garden Point campus and City Botanic Gardens at its south-east end ( 27°28′32″S 153°01′41″E / 27.4756°S 153.0281°E / -27.4756; 153.0281 ( George Street (south-east end) ) ), through
1577-426: Is constructed of masonry, steel and concrete and faced with sandstone from Helidon and Warwick. It sits on a plinth faced with alternate courses of Enoggera and Mount Crosby granite. The principal elevation to Queens Gardens and the elevations to George and William Streets have banded rustication on the lower two storeys. This two-storeyed base supports a colonnade of Giant order Ionic columns . The design of
1660-400: Is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. The highly intact Lands Administration Building is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of Edwardian Baroque public architecture, and is the finest example of its type constructed in Queensland. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The building
1743-440: Is important in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, and by architectural historians in particular, the accomplished design, detailing, materials and workmanship, its townscape contribution, particularly in relation to the adjacent buildings and sites and the aesthetic quality and connotations of the associated artworks and furnishings, including the stained glass and sculptural work. The place has
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#17327730767711826-432: Is produced either directly by the flame, generally by using special mixes (typically propane or butane) of illuminating gas to increase brightness, or indirectly with other components such as the gas mantle or the limelight , with the gas primarily functioning to heat the mantle or the lime to incandescence . Before electricity became sufficiently widespread and economical to allow for general public use, gas lighting
1909-483: The choke damp and the other fire damp . In 1667, a paper detailing the effects of these gases was entitled, "A Description of a Well and Earth in Lancashire taking Fire, by a Candle approaching to it. Imparted by Thomas Shirley, Esq an eye-witness." British clergyman and scientist Stephen Hales experimented with the actual distillation of coal, thereby obtaining a flammable liquid. He reported his results in
1992-530: The Brisbane River (including all of William Street ). All of the non-heritage buildings on the site will be demolished. [REDACTED] Media related to George Street, Brisbane at Wikimedia Commons Gas lamps Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane , propane , butane , acetylene , ethylene , hydrogen , carbon monoxide , coal gas (town gas) or natural gas . The light
2075-532: The First World War is located in the corridor on the first floor. The basic form of the building echoes the layout of the Treasury building. It is a perimeter block building around a central courtyard . A wide hallway runs around most of the building with doorways on either side opening onto rooms that are lit via windows to the courtyard or to the street or garden. The hallway does not continue through
2158-504: The Gas Light and Coke Company . A "thermolampe" using gas distilled from wood was patented in 1799, while German inventor Friedrich Winzer ( Frederick Albert Winsor ) was the first person to patent coal-gas lighting in 1804. In 1801, Phillipe Lebon of Paris had also used gas lights to illuminate his house and gardens, and was considering how to light all of Paris. In 1820, Paris adopted gas street lighting. In 1804, Dr Henry delivered
2241-658: The Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law and the State Law Building are found on the street. Queens Gardens , Treasury Building , Lands Administration Building and The Mansions are all located on George Street. Other office towers built on George Street include 111 George Street , 275 George Street and 400 George Street . At the northern end is the Roma Street railway station . George Street as well as Queen Street , Wickham Street and
2324-521: The State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014). [REDACTED] Media related to Land Administration Building at Wikimedia Commons George Street, Brisbane George Street
2407-473: The Technical Institute and Peter and Paul Fortress . It took many years of development and testing before gas lighting for the stage was commercially available. Gas technology was then installed in just about every major theatre in the world. But gas lighting was short-lived because the electric light bulb soon followed. In the 19th century, gas stage lighting went from a crude experiment to
2490-562: The University of Queensland , in the Old Government House at the end of George Street. By the late 1930s, the university outgrew this site, moving its main campus to St Lucia after World War II . On Friday 17 July 1970, a faulty fuse in a traffic light created a spark that ignited a leaking gas pipe running through the basements of several George Street buildings (between Queen Street and Adelaide Street) which caused
2573-509: The facades is in the style of the Edwardian Baroque . At each corner and in the centre of the principal elevation, pavilions jut out terminating the colonnade. The pavilions are enriched with rusticated columns and pilasters . The central pavilion addressing Queens Park is surmounted by an open segmental pediment . This pediment supports an allegorical sculpture depicting agriculture and mining. The building has an entrance in
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2656-438: The facades was completed during 1903-1904. In the north-western elevation an allegorical group representing Queensland mining and agriculture was carved by New South Wales sculptor William Priestly MacIntosh to a design by Thomas Pye. The mantelpieces were constructed of a variety of Queensland timbers (maple, cedar, black bean and silky oak) representing the state's timber resources. Allegorical stained glass highlighted
2739-490: The gas mantle was invented by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach . This eliminated the need for special illuminating gas (a synthetic mixture of hydrogen and hydrocarbon gases produced by destructive distillation of bituminous coal or peat ) to get bright shining flames. Acetylene was also used from about 1898 for gas lighting on a smaller scale. Illuminating gas was used for gas lighting, as it produces
2822-608: The "spirit" of coal. He discovered its flammability by an accident. The "spirit" he isolated from coal caught fire by coming in contact with a candle as it escaped from a fracture in one of his distillation vessels. He stored the coal gas in bladders, and at times he entertained his friends by demonstrating the flammability of the gas. Clayton published his findings in Philosophical Transactions . It took nearly 200 years for gas to become accessible for commercial use. A Flemish alchemist, Jan Baptista van Helmont ,
2905-488: The 19th century fell; these included footlights, border lights, groundrows, lengths, bunch lights, conical reflector floods, and limelight spots. These mechanisms sat directly on the stage, blinding the eyes of the audience. Gas lighting did have some disadvantages. "Several hundred theatres are said to have burned down in America and Europe between 1800 and the introduction of electricity in the late 1800s. The increased heat
2988-585: The Executive Building. Since then this former Executive Building has been known as the Land Administration Building. The gas lamps on the pavements at the William and George Street entrances were erected by about 1911. Those delineating the George Street entrance appear to have been moved further apart. They still function, lit by natural gas . The Lands Administration Building is a four-storeyed government office building occupying
3071-537: The Kingsley Private Hotel in July 1922. It has since been demolished. The Bellevue Hotel opened on the western corner of George and Alice Streets c. 1885 . It served for many years as Brisbane's premier hotel. Without any prior public announcement, the Queensland Government demolished the building overnight on 20 April 1979. In 1911, Queensland belatedly established its first university,
3154-609: The Land Court, and offices of the Premier and the Minister of Lands, which have a private stairway to George Street. These rooms have ornamental coffered plaster ceilings and timber panelling to dado height. The former Executive Council Chamber has three stained glass windows positioned above the dado which can also be seen from the hallway. The building is very intact, internally and externally. Land Administration Building
3237-459: The London and Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company was established. Less than two years later, on 31 December 1813, Westminster Bridge was lit by gas. By 1816, Samuel Clegg obtained the patent for his horizontal rotative retort , his apparatus for purifying coal gas with cream of lime , and for his rotative gas meter and self-acting governor . Among the economic impacts of gas lighting
3320-533: The US illuminated by gas has been variously identified as that of David Melville (c. 1806), as described above, or of William Henry, a coppersmith , at 200 Lombard Street, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, in 1816. In 1817, at the three stations of the Chartered Gas Company in London, 25 chaldrons (24 m ) of coal were carbonized daily, producing 300,000 cubic feet (8,500 m ) of gas. This supplied gas lamps equal to 75,000 Argand lamps each yielding
3403-682: The United Kingdom, coal gas was used until the early 1970s. The history of the Russian gas industry began with retired Lieutenant Pyotr Sobolevsky (1782–1841), who improved Philippe le Bon 's design for a "thermolamp" and presented it to Emperor Alexander I in 1811; in January 1812, Sobolevsky was instructed to draw up a plan for gas street-lighting for St. Petersburg. The French invasion of Russia delayed implementation, but St. Petersburg's Governor General Mikhail Miloradovich , who had seen
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3486-548: The United States, in either 1805 or 1806 in Newport, Rhode Island . In 1809, accordingly, the first application was made to Parliament to incorporate a company in order to accelerate the process, but the bill failed to pass. In 1810, however, the application was renewed by the same parties, and though some opposition was encountered and considerable expense incurred, the bill passed, but not without great alterations; and
3569-529: The William Street vestibule is a sower, a reaper, a pioneer and squatter. The glass in the George Street vestibule depicts a tiller and a herdsman . A marble tablet set into the wall of this entrance is inscribed with the message sent by King George V to the people of Australia on 25 April 1916, establishing the Anzac Day tradition. An honour board commemorating Lands Department staff who served in
3652-457: The Winter evening betwixt Hallowtide and Candlemassee ." Paris was first illuminated by an order issued in 1524, and, in the beginning of the 16th century, the inhabitants were ordered to keep lights burning in the windows of all houses that faced streets. In 1668, when some regulations were made for improving the streets of London, the residents were reminded to hang out their lanterns at
3735-571: The area known as Petrie Bight were unsealed and often dusty before 1899. In 1897, the North Brisbane Council held an election on whether a loan should be raised so the streets could be woodblocked. Agreement was given after a close decision by only a third of registered voters, however the results were limited as the surface was very slippery during the rain and buckled during heavy rains. The first private residence in Brisbane,
3818-453: The centre of both the George Street and William Street elevations. Each entrance is marked with a broken segmental pediment. Behind the upper colonnades there is a long recessed balcony . The use of fine wrought iron detail to balustrades , railings and gates complements the masonry detail. The stained glass in the entrance vestibules and elsewhere in the interior complements the use of sculpture externally. Depicted in stained glass in
3901-406: The centre of that part of the building located on Stephens Lane. Rooms in this wing are accessed from an arcade on the northeastern edge of the courtyard . Cast-iron balconies also provide circulation around the courtyard. Vertical circulation is provided by fine staircases and lifts associated with the two street entrances. The design also echoes the Treasury building by providing colonnades on
3984-403: The commercial centre of Brisbane ( Queen Street and Queen Street Mall ), through to Roma Street railway station at its north-west end ( 27°28′00″S 153°01′11″E / 27.4667°S 153.0196°E / -27.4667; 153.0196 ( George Street (north-west end) ) ). The State Parliament House building for the state of Queensland and Brisbane Square , as well as
4067-409: The extensive establishment of Messrs. Phillips and Lea. For this paper he was awarded Count Rumford 's gold medal. Murdoch's statements threw great light on the comparative advantage of gas and candles, and contained much useful information on the expenses of production and management. Although the history is uncertain, David Melville has been credited with the first house and street lighting in
4150-470: The first practical use of natural gas for lighting purposes around 500 B.C. in which they used bamboo pipelines to transport both brine and natural gas for many miles, such as the ones in Zigong salt mines. Public illumination preceded by centuries the development and widespread adoption of gas lighting. In 1417, Sir Henry Barton , Lord Mayor of London , ordained "Lanthornes with lights to bee hanged out on
4233-583: The first stage 'switchboard'. By the 1850s, gas lighting in theatres had spread practically all over the United States and Europe. Some of the largest installations of gas lighting were in large auditoriums, like the Théâtre du Chatelet , built in 1862. In 1875, the new Paris Opera was constructed. "Its lighting system contained more than twenty-eight miles [45 km] of gas piping, and its gas table had no fewer than eighty-eight stopcocks, which controlled nine hundred and sixty gas jets." The theatre that used
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#17327730767714316-412: The first volume of his Vegetable Statics , published in 1726. From the distillation of "one hundred and fifty-eight grains [10.2 g] of Newcastle coal, he stated that he obtained 180 cubic inches [2.9 L] of gas, which weighed 51 grains [3.3 g], being nearly one third of the whole." Hales's results garnered attention decades later as the unique chemical properties of various gases became understood through
4399-454: The gas lighting of Vienna, Paris and other European cities, initiated experimental work on gas lighting for the capital, using British apparatus for obtaining gas from pit coal, and by the autumn of 1819, Russia's first gas street light was lit on one of the streets on Aptekarsky Island . In February 1835, the Company for Gas Lighting St. Petersburg was founded; towards the end of that year,
4482-569: The high energy density of the hydrocarbon fuel , and the modular canisters on which camping lights are built, brings bright and long lasting light without complex equipment. In addition, some urban historical districts retain gas street lighting , and gas lighting is used indoors or outdoors to create or preserve a nostalgic effect . Prior to use of gaseous fuels for lighting, the early lighting fuels consisted of olive oil , beeswax , fish oil , whale oil , sesame oil , nut oil, or other similar substances, which were all liquid fuels. These were
4565-494: The intensity of the light from each source. In 1806 The Philips and Lee factory and a portion of Chapel Street in Salford, Lancashire were lit by gas, thought to be the first use of gas street lighting in the world. Josiah Pemberton , an inventor, had for some time been experimenting on the nature of gas. A resident of Birmingham, his attention may have been roused by the exhibition at Soho. About 1806, he exhibited gas lights in
4648-686: The late 1890s and with the Federation of Australia . In 1898-1899 plans were prepared under the supervision of chief architect Thomas Pye of the Queensland Government Architect's office . Special provisions for the Lands Department included Minister's offices, drafting rooms, photographic and heliographic rooms, and a Land Court. With the inclusion of offices for the Executive Council and Cabinet,
4731-527: The light of six candles. At the City Gas Works, in Dorset Street, Blackfriars , three chaldrons of coal were carbonized each day, providing the gas equivalent of 9,000 Argand lamps. So 28 chaldrons of coal were carbonized daily, and 84,000 lights supplied by those two companies only. At this period the principal difficulty in gas manufacture was purification. Mr. D. Wilson, of Dublin, patented
4814-521: The most commonly used fuels until the late 18th century. Whale oil was especially widely used for lighting in European cities such as London through the early 19th century. Chinese records dating back 1,700 years indicate the use of natural gas in homes for lighting and heating. The natural gas was transported by means of bamboo pipes to homes. The ancient Chinese of the Spring and Autumn period made
4897-538: The most effective. He first lit his own house in Redruth , Cornwall in 1792. In 1798, he used gas to light the main building of the Soho Foundry and in 1802 lit the outside in a public display of gas lighting, the lights astonishing the local population. One of the employees at the Soho Foundry, Samuel Clegg , saw the potential of this new form of lighting. Clegg left his job to set up his own gas lighting business,
4980-612: The most gas lighting was Astley's Equestrian Amphitheatre in London. According to the Illustrated London News , "Everywhere white and gold meets the eye, and about 200,000 gas jets add to the glittering effect of the auditorium … such a blaze of light and splendour has scarcely ever been witnessed, even in dreams." Theatres switched to gas lighting because it was more economical than using candles and also required less labour to operate. With gas lighting, theatres would no longer need to have people tending to candles during
5063-696: The most popular way of lighting theatrical stages. In 1804, Frederick Albert Winsor first demonstrated the way to use gas to light the stage in London at the Lyceum Theatre . Although the demonstration and all the lead research were being done in London, "in 1816 at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia was the earliest gas lit theatre in world". In 1817 the Lyceum, Drury Lane , and Covent Garden theatres were all lit by gas. Gas
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#17327730767715146-400: The new technology that one said, "This light is perfect for the stage. One can obtain gradation of brightness that is really magical." The best result was the improved respect from the audience. There was no more shouting or riots. The light pushed the actors more up stage behind the proscenium, helping the audience concentrate more on the action that was taking place on stage rather than what
5229-549: The new technology. Murdoch was the first to exploit the flammability of gas for the practical application of lighting. He worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watt at their Soho Foundry steam engine works in Birmingham , England. In the early 1790s, while overseeing the use of his company's steam engines in tin mining in Cornwall, Murdoch began experimenting with various types of gas, finally settling on coal gas as
5312-674: The principal streets in the centre of the city, as well as nearby houses, had switched to gas lighting by the end of 1817. In America, Seth Bemis lit his factory with gas illumination from 1812 to 1813. The use of gas lights in Rembrandt Peale 's Museum in Baltimore in 1816 was a great success. Baltimore was the first American city with gas street lights; Peale's Gas Light Company of Baltimore on 7 February 1817 lit its first street lamp at Market and Lemon Streets (currently Baltimore and Holliday Streets). The first private residence in
5395-411: The principle behind gas lighting. Later in the 18th century William Murdoch (sometimes spelled "Murdock") stated: "the gas obtained by distillation from coal, peat, wood and other inflammable substances burnt with great brilliancy upon being set fire to … by conducting it through tubes, it might be employed as an economical substitute for lamps and candles." Murdoch's first invention was a lantern with
5478-500: The rapid adoption of electric lighting. By 1881, the Savoy Theatre in London was using incandescent lighting. While electric lighting was introduced to theatre stages, the gas mantle was developed in 1885 for gas-lit theatres. "This was a beehive-shaped mesh of knitted thread impregnated with lime that, in miniature, converted the naked gas flame into in effect, a lime-light ." Electric lighting slowly took over in theatres. In
5561-577: The rural nature of the Queensland economy. From 1901, the Queensland National Art Gallery occupied a purpose-designed room the length of the third floor above George Street. In 1930 the art gallery was relocated to the Exhibition Building Concert Hall . Both Executive Council and Cabinet met in the building from 1905 until 1971, when new offices were constructed at 100 George Street, known as
5644-495: The three main elevations. The construction demonstrates an early use of reinforced concrete floors in a large scale building. Steel framing was employed in the roofs over the photographic rooms on the top floor and over the fireproofed sections. Metal roller shutters were installed in the fireproof sections. The principal architectural spaces include rooms formerly used for the Executive Council Chamber,
5727-675: The usual time, and, in 1690, an order was issued to hang out a light, or lamp, every night at nightfall, from Michaelmas to Christmas. By an Act of the Common Council in 1716, all housekeepers, whose houses faced any street, lane, or passage, were required to hang out, every dark night, one or more lights, to burn from six to eleven o'clock, under the penalty of one shilling as a fine for failing to do so. Accumulating and escaping gases were known originally among coal miners for their adverse effects rather than their useful characteristics. Coal miners described two types of gases, one called
5810-705: The work of Joseph Black , Henry Cavendish , Alessandro Volta , and others. A 1733 publication by Sir James Lowther in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society detailed some properties of coal gas, including its flammability. Lowther demonstrated the principal properties of coal gas to different members of the Royal Society . He showed that the gas retained its flammability after storage for some time. The demonstration did not result in identification of utility. Minister and experimentalist John Clayton referred to coal gas as
5893-415: Was a first in Queensland. The building was symbolic of Queensland's pride and achievement, and was seen as a showcase for Queensland materials. Granite used as the base course and plinth was obtained from Enoggera and Mount Crosby . Brown freestone from Helidon was used to face the outer walls, and freestone from Yangan near Warwick was used on the colonnade walls. The decorative carving to
5976-413: Was brought into the building by "miles of rubber tubing from outlets in the floor called 'water joints'" which "carried the gas to border-lights and wing lights". But before it was distributed, the gas came through a central distribution point called a "gas table", which varied the brightness by regulating the gas supply, and the gas table, which allowed control of separate parts of the stage. Thus it became
6059-517: Was due to the Preston Gaslight Company run by revolutionary Joseph Dunn , who found the most improved way of brighter gas lighting. The parish church there was the first religious building to be lit by gas lighting. In Bristol , a Gas Light Company was founded on 15 December 1815. Under the supervision of the engineer, John Brelliat, extensive works were conducted in 1816-17 to build a gasholder, mains and street lights. Many of
6142-506: Was erected between 1901 and 1905. Initially intended as offices for the Lands and Survey Departments, it was finished and occupied in 1905 as the Executive Building, accommodating both the Lands and Survey Departments and offices of the Premier and Executive Council . It is the most prominent Brisbane example of Queensland Government building activity associated with the economic recovery of
6225-532: Was established, with Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet as general manager. The 1839 invention, the Bude-Light , provided a brighter and more economical lamp. Oil-gas appeared in the field as a rival of coal gas. In 1815, John Taylor patented an apparatus for the decomposition of "oil" and other animal substances. Public attention was attracted to "oil-gas" by the display of the patent apparatus at Apothecary's Hall , by Taylor & Martineau . In 1891
6308-426: Was going on in the house. Management had more authority on what went on during the show because they could see. Gaslight was the leading cause of behaviour change in theatres. They were no longer places for mingling and orange selling, but places of respected entertainment. There were six types of burners, but four burners were really experimented with: Several different instruments were used for stage lighting in
6391-523: Was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. As the most important building constructed by the Queensland government during the economic recovery of the early 1900s, the Lands Administration Building is important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history. The place
6474-491: Was much longer work hours in factories. This was particularly important in Great Britain during the winter months when nights are significantly longer. Factories could even work continuously over 24 hours, resulting in increased production. Following successful commercialization, gas lighting spread to other countries. In England, the first place outside London to have gas lighting was Preston, Lancashire , in 1816; this
6557-434: Was objectionable, and the border lights and wing lights had to be lighted by a long stick with a flaming wad of cotton at the end. For many years, an attendant or gas boy moved along the long row of jets, lighting them individually while gas was escaping from the whole row. Both actors and audiences complained of the escaping gas, and explosions sometimes resulted from its accumulation." These problems with gas lighting led to
6640-558: Was originally occupied by the offices of the Lands and Survey Departments, the Premier of Queensland , the Executive Council , and the Queensland National Art Gallery . It contains a heritage-listed World War I Honour board . Since 1995, the building has been used as the hotel of the Treasury Casino (the casino being located in the former Treasury Building ). This four-storeyed masonry government office building
6723-414: Was prevalent for outdoor and indoor use in cities and suburbs where the infrastructure for distribution of gas was practical. At that time, the most common fuels for gas lighting were wood gas , coal gas and, in limited cases, water gas . Early gas lights were ignited manually by lamplighters , although many later designs are self-igniting. Gas lighting now is frequently used for camping , for which
6806-425: Was the first person to formally recognize gas as a state of matter. He would go on to identify several types of gases, including carbon dioxide. Over one hundred years later in 1733, Sir James Lowther had some of his miners working on a water pit for his mine. While digging the pit they hit a pocket of gas. Lowther took a sample of the gas and took it home to do some experiments. He noted, "The said air being put into
6889-594: Was to be found all over Britain and about a thousand gas works had sprung up to meet the demand for the new fuel. The brighter lighting which gas provided allowed people to read more easily and for longer. This helped to stimulate literacy and learning, speeding up the second Industrial Revolution . In 1824 the English Association for Gas Lighting on the Continent , a sizeable business producing gas for several cities in mainland, Europe, including Berlin,
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