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Gas lighting
Gas lighting is the procedure of burning
piped natural gas or coal gas for lighting. Before the
economicalization of electricity for universal public
use, it was the most popular means of lighting in cities
and suburbs. Early gas lights had to be lit physically
but soon gas lights could light themselves.
Early lighting fuels consisted of olive
oil, beeswax, fish oil, whale oil, sesame oil, nut oil,
and related substances. These were the most normally
used fuels until the late 18th century. The first known
gas light was made by the ancient Chinese collecting
natural gas in skins that was used for lighting.
Gaslight is also the name of some movies.
The verb, "to gaslight", or "gaslighting",
following the principle of the movie, has come down
to us as any attempt by one or more people to delicately
convince someone else that they are losing their grasp
on reality, through physical trickery or mind games,
in order to gain some advantage over them.
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