Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets, Houses, and Public Buildings: With Elevations, Sections, and Plans ... Gas Works in London, and the Principal Provin - Softcover

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Excerpt from Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets, Houses, and Public Buildings: With Elevations, Sections, and Plans of the Most Improved Sorts of Apparatus Now Employed at the Gas Works in London, and the Principal Provincial Towns of Great Britain

The extraordinarily rapid progress which the recent invention of lighting with coal gas has made in this country, is perhaps without a parallel in the history of the useful arts.

It was an invention not exempted from the misfortune common to all innovations on established practises, of encountering Opposition, but it had the fortune common to few, of obtaining an almost instantaneous triumph.

A single exhibition of the gas lights in actual use was sufficient to determine the public judgment in favour of the new mode of illumination to see was in this case.

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