The Vital Flame

1947 · Compton Mackenzie

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Book on the British gas industry by Compton Mackenzie, published for the British Gas Council, illustrated with 42 colour photographs and seven pages of Isotype charts. The five listed charts cover gas made per head of population in the United States and European countries, the range of by-products from coal carbonisation, gas consumers by region of Great Britain in 1946, annual gas sales in Great Britain 1885-1945, and smoke pollution against gas and coke output in the London area 1917-1937. Charts are credited to the Isotype Institute.

Author: Compton Mackenzie
Charts: Isotype Institute
Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd (for the British Gas Council), London
Year: 1947
Language: English
Pages: 8 · 14 chart scans
Text: OCR, searchable
Rights: Free and open for research use

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gas industry energy coal by-products air pollution consumption

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