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A FEW years ago the public was led to believe that the use of coal-gas for lighting purposes was on its trial, and must shortly give way to the electric light. Threatened institutions live long, and even if coal-gas is destined to be eventually superseded by electricity for lighting purposes, a useful future is now opening out for it as a fuel offering many advantages over coal for domestic heating and cooking. In these fields it may possibly occur in the future that coal-gas—unless the price is everywhere considerably reduced—will have to encounter rivals such as the petroleum oils on the score of their cheapness, but at present, coal-gas, for cooking and heating purposes, offers many facilities and advantages over any other kind of fuel.
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Heating and Cooking by Gas . Nature 34, 266–269 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034266c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034266c0