Fig. 7. Fig. 6. IO eral use early in the nineteenth century street light-ing became practically universal in Europe andAmerica. Lamplight commenced its period of retirementwhen, in 1792, William Burdock, of Ayrshire, Scot-land, invented gas. One night, as he sat by his fire-side, he saw a burning… … Fig. 1. ot gas. He took his pipe out of his mouth and emp-tied it. He then put a piece of this burning coal intothe bowl of his pipe, and applying a light to the endof the stem, found that the gas burned. That wasthe beginning of artificial gas. As early as 1644 VonHelmont of Belgium knew the…
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