Illuminating Engineering Society, Association of Public Lighting Engineers (Great Britain) · [London] · leaf 226
asworking-class opposition to the newinvention that Clegg was obhged tolight the lamps himself for the first few a. NozzIc.nights, the lamplighters stubbornly c. orote HoWer.refusing to do so. In 1815 the Guild- g. ^^p^,^^^^hall was lighted by gas, and the public g. Gas Adjuster.teemed with the… … pressgant but undazzling and soft as moonlight,tliough forming a magnificent combina-tion worthy the inauguration of thepresiding citizen. The year 1816found a large part of the Metropolisilluminated by gas, more than 4,000argand burners having been put up,while arrangements were being madefor a…
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