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DURING October, an exhibition and conference is being held under the auspices of the National Smoke Abatement Society in the Science Museum, South Kensington. The interesting Handbook (Pp. 78. Price 6d.) published by the Society, the offices of which are at 36 King Street, Manchester, contains twelve articles on various aspects, which are reinforced by another dozen addresses at the Conference held at the Science Museum on October 14-17. Dr. des Voeux, reviewing the smoke abatement movement, mentioned that an exhibition of appliances was held in 1885. Actually one was held still earlier, in November 1881, under most influential auspices and also in South Kensington (NATURE, 25, 219; 1882). The writer has been informed that the organizers were prosecuted for causing a smoke nuisance. Many would be interested to Jearn that a grate designed by Sir W. Siemens for burning coke and fitted with a gas burner for ignition was a prominent exhibit (NATURE, 23, 25; 1881). The promoters of the 1881 exhibition would have been surprised to learn that a problem which they understood would still await solution after half a century.
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HODSMAN, H. National Smoke Abatement Exhibition. Nature 138, 728–729 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138728a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138728a0