Coal, and What We Get from It

by Raphael Meldola

AND WHAT WE GET FROM IT.

A Romance of Applied Science.

EXPANDED FROM THE NOTES OF A LECTURE
DELIVERED IN THE THEATRE OF THE
LONDON INSTITUTION, Jan. 20th, 1890.

BY

RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., F.I.C., &C.,

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE FINSBURY TECHNICAL COLLEGE,
CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON INSTITUTE.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE
OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTED BY THE
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, CHARING CROSS, W.C.;
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
BRIGHTON: 135, NORTH STREET. NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.
1891.

TO
WILLIAM HENRY PERKIN,
Ph.D., F.R.S.,
THE FOUNDER OF THE COAL-TAR COLOUR INDUSTRY,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

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