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WILLIAM MURDOCH died one hundred years ago and, at the annual meeting of the Institution of Gas Engineers on June 6 last, his position as founder of the gas industry received grateful commemoration in a Murdoch Centenary Lecture delivered by Dr. E. F. Armstrong. The lecture was only to a small extent biographical, although points of interest are recorded bringing out clearly the all-round quality of the man as a born engineer “of admirable inventive power and common sense genius”, to quote the tribute of Nasmyth. It was made the occasion for the preparation of a reasoned history of the gas industry in Great Britain in the small compass of sixty-seven pages, brief but packed with information concerning the highways and some of the byways on which the industry has travelled in time.
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COBB, J. The Gas Industry in Great Britain. Nature 144, 10–11 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144010a0