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Town Gas and its Uses for the Production of Light, Heat and Motive Power

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THE opening lines to the preface of this book supply the keynote to all that follows—“This book is a summary of what I know, that appears to me to be likely to interest a generally well-informed but not technically instructed reader about the manufacture of town gas and its uses.”

Town Gas and its Uses for the Production of Light, Heat and Motive Power.

By W. H. Y. Webber. Pp. vii + 275. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 6s. net.

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Town Gas and its Uses for the Production of Light, Heat and Motive Power . Nature 77, 340–341 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077340a0

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