GAS 100 YEARS AGO
A paragraph in tho “Evening Standard” in 1830 refers to the installation of gas-lighting at the London Guildhall. A rehearsal of the Lord Mayor’s banquet was held on Ist- November, and the new lighting was declared to be gorgeous. The municipal councillors of the time were not the only public authorities who hailed the new ilhuninant. A superchandclier witli lens of thousands of burners was installed in the House of Commons. The illumination was such that you could have seen a pin drop. But the* lights had to he extinguished immediately, for the reason that the temperature rose in a few seconds to 104 deg. The domestic uses of gas were widely appreciated. The inhabitants of a town in the North of England were so delighted by the new ilhuninant that thoy kept on the lights in the daytime and pulled down their blinds. “Compared,” they said, “with gas, daylight wen? a fool.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 7
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157GAS 100 YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 7
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