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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 : accompanied with comparative estimates exhibiting the most economical mode of procuring this species of light / by Fredrick Accum
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PREFACE.

Compton Street, Soho .

The extraordinarily rapid progress which the recentinvention of lighting with coal gas has made in thiscountry, is perhaps without a parallel in the history ofthe useful arts.

It was an invention not exempted from the misfortunecommon to all innovations on established practises, ofencountering opposition, but it had the fortune commonto few, of obtaining an almost instantaneous triumph.

A single exhibition of the gas lights in actual usewas sufficient to determine the public judgment in favourof the new mode of illumination ; to see was in this case,indeed to believe.

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