While the electric age affected daily lives, Wiest retained his personal preference for illuminating gas and kerosene lamps
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In 1903, United Gas Improvement owned the majority of the stock of the Equitable Illuminating Gas Light Company.
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Richard Bohart s early scientific endeavors involved experiments which flooded his home basement and anaesthetizing his cat with illuminating gas.
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Illuminating gas was used for gas lighting, as it produces a much brighter light than natural gas or water gas.
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Illuminating gas was much less toxic than other forms of coal-gas, but less could be produced from a given quantity of coal.
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In the late 19th century, a company piped waste from the production of illuminating gas ( for gas lighting ) into Mahanoy Creek.
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In the early years of MGP operations, the goal of a utility gas works was to produce the greatest amount of illuminating gas.
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Magruder also wrote the decision denying the creation of the Chicago Gas Trust Company, which would have monopolized the local illuminating gas trade.
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Now a brilliantly illuminated gas station 10 kilometers ( 6 miles ) away has made it still harder to see the universe, astronomers say.
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This eliminated the need for special illuminating gas-a synthetic mixture of hydrogen and hydrocarbon gases produced by destructive distillation of bituminous coal or peat, to get bright shining flames.
