Coal gas
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Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system originating from a gasworks. It is produced when coal is heated strongly in the absence of
Gas Works Park, Seattle, preserves most of the equipment for making coal gas. This is the only such plant surviving in the United States.
An illustration of typical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Source: NASA
Mantles in their unused flat-packed form
Coke oven at smokeless fuel plant, South Wales
Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobi
Coal gas
…inhalation of gas from an unlit oven. With the head and upper body placed inside the appliance, the concentrated carbon monoxide would kill quickly. Sylvia Plath ended her life with this method. Created as a by-product of the coking process, its use developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries tracking the…
Sylvia Plath
Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, Cambridge
Plath's stay at McLean Hospital inspired her novel The Bell Jar
Chalcot Square, near Primrose Hill in London, Plath and Hughes's home from 1959