Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Roots of Gas Lighting -- Chapter 1. Gas Lighting and Pneumatic Chemistry -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A Gas Plant of the Early Nineteenth Century -- 1.3 Pneumatic Chemistry, 1650-1790 -- 1.4 Apparatus and Techniques of...

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