Excerpt from Gas Gas Making: Growth, Methods, and Prospects of the Gas Industry The purpose of this little book is to give a plain, succinct account, in non-technical language, Of the industry of Coal Gas Manufacture and Public Supply. This industry is just over 100 years Old, and is of British origin and upbringing. Nothing in all indus trial history is more wonderful than the development of what was originally merely a system of extracting and distributing a means of producing a cheap and convenient artificial light, into what Lord Moulton recently described as one of the vital resources of the nation, which has rendered inestimable service in the present emergency. The gas industry claims to be the most economical agency for realizing and applying in the service of man the great potentialities of coal; and the Author of this book trusts that he has suc ceeded in explaining faithfully and intelligibly, in some measure at least, how this is done. He desires to acknowledge the helpful loan of illustrative matter by gas engineers, amongst whom are Mr. Alwyne Meade, the Author of Modern Gasworks Practice; Messrs. Humphreys Glasgow, Ltd.; the K. A. Water Gas co., Ltd.; British Coke Ovens, Ltd.; Messrs. E. G. Appleby CO Ltd.; James Keith, Blackman Co., Ltd.; Wilsons Mathiesons, Ltd.; The Richmond Gas Stove Meter Co., Ltd.; Fletcher, Russell co., Ltd.; The Woodall, Duckham co., Ltd.; and the Publishers of The Gas World. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.