Coal-gas
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“Coal-gas was first used as a lighthouse illuminant at Salvore, near Trieste, in 1817. For many years it has been used in the harbour lights of Great Britain when in the neighborhood of gas-works. Mr. J. R. Wigham has designed a compound or crecus burner consisting of a group of twenty-eight vertical tubes, each carrying an ordinary double fish-tail burner, and the ignited gases issuing from all these jets unite into one large flame.” —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910
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The Encyclopedia Britannica, New Warner Edition (New York, NY: The Werner Company, 1893)
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