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The Early East London Gas Industry and its Waste Products

The Early East London Gas Industry and its Waste Products

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Introduction
A brief background to the London Gas Industry
      Woolwich
      The first gas made in Greenwich and Europe
      Practical gas making Equipment. Boulton and Watt
      The first London Gas Works
      Making and Selling Gas
      Spread of the Gas Industry in London
Coke
     Original intentions
     The Patent Coke Company
      Proposals for using coke
      Actual Coke Sales - carters and barters
Tar before Gas
Tar- sorting it out
The Chartered gas Company and Sales to the Navy
Customers for Tar
Mr. Cassell and Gas Works Tar
How was Gas Tar used
      Thomas Dalton and the Poplar Tar Works
Ammoniacal Liquor
Ammonia salts. Early investigations and sales
     Mr.Palmer
Sales of Ammonia Salts
Raw ammoniacal liquor
Copperas and liquor on Deptford Creek
Mr Angus Croll
The purification saga
      Blue Billy
Frank Hills and his relations and the purification of  Town Gas
Conclusion


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