Gasworks
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A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas. Many of these have been made redundant in the developed world by the use of natural gas, though they are still used for storage space.
Municipal gasworks in Poznań that produced coal gas between 1856 and 1973. Currently used for distribution of natural gas.
Disused gasworks that has become a public park located at 47°38′43″N 122°20′05″W / 47.64528°N 122.33472°W / 47.64528; -122.33472 in Seattle, Washington.
Retort house at the Launceston Gasworks, Launceston, Tasmania.
Gas-holders, Reading
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. It is produced when coal is heated strongly in the absence of air. Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities.
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