{"id":58815,"date":"2018-11-12T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/education-and-dissemination\/archive-and-heritage\/le-reveil-magique-timer\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:45:29","slug":"le-reveil-magique-timer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/education-and-dissemination\/archive-and-heritage\/le-reveil-magique-timer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Le r\u00e9veil magique\u201d timer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;50515&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"gnf-texto-destacado\" style=\"background-color:#edf0f1;border-color:#004165;\"><h4 style=\"color:#004165\"><\/h4>Made\u00a0in: Francia<br \/>\nSteel, iron, brass and glass<br \/>\nEarly&#8217;s\u00a0 XX Century<br \/>\nRegistry number: OT 232<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photography:<\/strong> Reloj temporizador <em>\u201cLe R\u00e9veil Magique\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nUnknown\u00a0photographer<br \/>\n\u00a9 Museo del Gas de la Fundaci\u00f3n Gas Natural Fenosa, 2017<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The <em>\u201cLe R\u00e9veil Magique\u201d<\/em> timer, which is preserved in the Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation Gas Museum collection, is an invention that helped <strong>automate when the gas lampposts in cities were turned off and on in the early 20th century<\/strong>.\u00a0Before using this gas appliance, the lighting and extinguishing task was assigned to the lamplighters. However, due to the rising cost of the labour, companies chose to gradually move aware from the manual operators and the city lights started to be turned on and off automatically. The times were set by the authorities according to the daylight hours of each season.<\/p>\n<p>The functioning of the gas timer was based on the movement of the clock, which had a circular disc that made one revolution every 24 hours. The movement of the disc activated the gas shut-off valve, which lit the pilot flame while the lampposts were turned off. <strong>The flame was turned off five minutes after the lamppost was turned on and it was reignited five minute before the lamppost was turned off.<\/strong>. The inside of the sphere of this invention contains an inscription reading <em>Syst\u00e8me<\/em><em> brevet\u00e9 SGDG<\/em> (the abbreviation of <em>sans garantie du gouvernement),<\/em> a legal warning from the French patent law, written in 1844, which declared that assurance had been granted without a prior review of the device.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;50515&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The \u201cLe R\u00e9veil Magique\u201d timer, which is preserved in the Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation Gas Museum collection, is an invention that helped automate when the gas<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/education-and-dissemination\/archive-and-heritage\/le-reveil-magique-timer\/\">Leer m\u00e1s<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":0,"parent":58704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58815\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}