coal gas in a sentence
Examples
- 1792 : READING AFTER DARK William Murdock in Cornwall, England, lights his home using coal gas.
- It was a slide valve coal gas engine.
- The whole of the UK was converted from coal gas to natural gas in the 1970s.
- Coal gas was initially manufactured by independent companies but many of these later became municipal services.
- The manufacture of coal also provided coal gas, which could be used for heating and lighting.
- The city became the first major urban area to switch from manufactured coal gas to natural gas.
- It has a capacity of 14, 000 cu . ft . and is inflated with coal gas.
- Many mines lack fans or other forms of ventilation to disperse volatile coal gas produced while mining.
- He died in his London flat of coal gas poisoning in 1930, probably by his own hand.
- Coal gas supplied fuel for interior lighting.