The combustion of coal and the prevention of smoke : chemically and practically considered / by C.W. Williams.

  • Charles Wye Williams
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The combustion of coal and the prevention of smoke : chemically and practically considered / by C.W. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    anxiously looked for some legislative enactment by which those who create public nuisances shall be com- pelled to abate them. My patent of 1839 having mow expired, I have no interest whatever in bringing the subject thus prominently forward, beyond the natural claim to the credit of having (in the words of Sir Robert Kane) been ^^the first to place this subject in its important and just aspect.” I have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship’s obliged and humble Servant, CHARLES WYE WILLIAMS.
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