{"id":471,"date":"2023-07-29T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2023-07-29T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T15:27:41","slug":"8-lofficina-del-gas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/8-lofficina-del-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"8. L&#8217;officina del gas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/8.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>L\u2019officina del gas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A met\u00e0 Ottocento le aziende per l\u2019illuminazione delle citt\u00e0 erano vere officine di trasformazione del carbone in gas. La gassificazione del carbone era un complesso procedimento chimico assimilabile ad una raffineria petrolifera e si otteneva come prodotto principale il &#8220;gas di citt\u00e0&#8221;, ma anche altri numerosi composti chimici (benzolo, trementina, catrame, naftalina e ammoniaca) oltre al pi\u00f9 noto e diffuso &#8220;carbon coke&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le Compagnie per la produzione del gas erano spesso Svizzere e, infatti, nell\u2019archivio comunale \u00e8 conservato un album del progetto della societ\u00e0 Carl Francke di Zurigo in cui c\u2019\u00e8 anche la casa di abitazione per il direttore dell\u2019impianto, come si era soliti fare in quell\u2019epoca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La casa \u00e8 ancora riconoscibile a Baveno oltre l\u2019attuale Scuola media, prima della Casa dell\u2019anziano, nell\u2019area dell\u2019impianto del gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The gas works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid-nineteenth century, city lighting companies were real factories for transforming coal into gas. The gasification of coal was a complex chemical process similar to an oil refinery and the main product was obtained &#8220;city gas&#8221;, but also numerous other chemical compounds (benzol, turpentine, tar, mothballs and ammonia) in addition to the more known and widespread &#8220;coke coal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gas production companies were often Swiss and, in fact, an album of the project by the Carl Francke company of Zurich is conserved in the municipal archive, which also contains the dwelling house for the plant manager, as it was usual at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The house is still recognizable in Baveno beyond the current middle school, before the old man&#8217;s house, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe gas plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019officina del gas A met\u00e0 Ottocento le aziende per l\u2019illuminazione delle citt\u00e0 erano vere officine di trasformazione del carbone in gas. La gassificazione del carbone era un complesso procedimento chimico assimilabile ad una raffineria petrolifera e si otteneva come prodotto principale il &#8220;gas di citt\u00e0&#8221;, ma anche altri numerosi composti chimici (benzolo, trementina, catrame, naftalina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/80.211.238.222\/wp-baveno\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}