There was a gas manufacturing plant in Brattleboro but it was before my
time.  I remember a large storage tank that was left over from it.  Will
ask my Dad if he knows anything about it.  Ruth





At 9:37 AM -0400 5/31/02, Ralph Walter wrote:
In a message dated 5/30/2002 4:40:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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My recollection is that coal gasification was a major source of energy for
Germany during WWII.



My grandparents brought a cooking stove with them to Los Angeles from The
Reich in 1940, which sat for 30 years in my grandfather's toolhouse because
it wouldn;t work with US gas.  There was also some sort of
artificially-produced lighting gas in use here in the 19th-20th C for
places that didn't have municipal gas supplies.

Ralph

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