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THE growing obscurity which distinguishes the winter atmosphere of London has disposed men to consider whether it is an indispensable evil connected with the use of coal in great centres of population, or whether means can be found of providing the warmth and comfort which the copious use of mineral fuel affords us without having to pay the penalty of dispensing with the solar ray, of finding ourselves and everything we touch covered with soot, and of occasionally having, even at midday, to grope our way with a feeling akin to suffocation.
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SIEMENS, C. Dr. Siemens's New Cure for Smoke . Nature 23, 25–27 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023025a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/023025a0