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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> By profession John Breillat was a calender and silk dyer. Ammonia one of the products of coal gas manufacture had an importance in dyeing but it is uncertain whether this was significant in contributing to his interest. Moreover the details of alleged contacts with William Murdoch the pioneer of gas lighting or attendance at Edward Heard’s lectures on the subject in Bristol during 1805 cannot be verified. Nevertheless by September 1811 John Breillat was able to advertise his own gas lighting demonstrations but ‘not without the imputation of bringing up unholy fire from the nine circles below. Up to this time Bristol in common with other places had relied on oil lamps for public lighting. Just eleven years before Breillat’s exhibition the Corporation refused to pay more than ?26-125-0d for street lamps in the city and for this they stipulated that there should be 3 lamps at the Mansion House. (LL)